Saturday Mornings on Becker Avenue
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Market offerings
Tag: 2022
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Pattypan!
In addition to all of the tasty veggies we posted about on Tuesday, we also have some white pattypan squash and yardlong beans (aka Chinese green noodle beans).
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Beans!
UPDATE: We now have yardlong beans.
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Tomatoes
The tomatoes seem to start with a trickle and then progress into a downpour. These are the first; they will sell out quickly and more is yet to come. Assorted cherry tomatoes: $5 per 12-ounce pint. All other tomatoes currently available (not all varieties are ready yet), $3 per pound.
Our Persian cucumber harvest is growing stronger; they are $3 per pound. No lemon cucumbers yet.
Beets are harvesting well; $2 per pound.
The garden beans that the July heatwave tried to defeat are making a comeback: $2 per 8 ounces. More beans are on the way…we expect to have yardlong beans soon.
Greens include sweet potato greens, lamb’s quarters (quelites), New Zealand spinach (taste and texture like purslane/verdolagas), lemony sorrel, and Swiss chard. We love greens: put them in soups, stews, stir-fries, pastas, casseroles, enchiladas, with beans, with eggs.
Herbs picked to order: basil, parsley, onion chives, garlic chives, sage, thyme, oregano, and more…
We still have black currant jam and celtuce pickles. More preserved foods will come as the harvest continues.
Our sourdough bread for Saturday Mornings on Becker Avenue is green chile and cheese. These 8 loaves are your last chance for sourdough until the killing frost (Octoberish) ends our harvest season. We simply do not have the time or space to bake when every horizontal surface in our house is covered with tomatoes. After the growing season, we will be baking a lot more; stay tuned.
Our direct from farm sales are Tuesday-Thursday, 9am-5pm. 14 Gonzales Rd, Belen. 505-302-5657. Please park in our driveway and ring our doorbell for service (it buzzes our phones).
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Thank you customers!
Our cucumber pickles and dehydrated apples sold out today. We’ll make more cucumber pickles as our plants produce more cucumbers.
However, we do not have apple trees; we were given those apples by a neighbor. If you have excess apples, we have a solar dehydrator…let’s make a mutually beneficial partnership.
Red chile and honey sourdough, available tomorrow at 8am at Saturday Mornings on Becker Avenue.
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In the works
The red chile and honey sourdough (available tomorrow at Saturday Mornings on Becker Avenue) gets a dusting of red chile powder mixed with flour before baking.
Also in the works: bread and butter pickles from our Persian cucumbers.
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Solar power
Are your fruit trees producing more fruit than you know what to do with? We have a solar dehydrator.
Let’s chat: 505-302-5657
Pictured here: Fuji apples.
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Spinach
Late addition: this is New Zealand spinach. It has mild-flavored succulent leaves like purslane/verdolagas.
Coming up at Saturday Mornings on Becker Avenue:
Persian cucumbers. No, not Armenian cucumbers (we love those too). These are spineless, burpless, never bitter, and great for fresh eating or pickling.
Also baby beets, yum!
Blackcurrant jam. It’s sweet, a little sour, with luscious summer berry flavor.
Lots of greens. Sweet potato, amaranth, and lemony sorrel pictured here. We also have lamb’s quarters (quelites), and Swiss chard.
For pickles we have rattail radishes and celtuce in wheat-free soy sauce.
The sourdough selection is green chile and cheese.
Show your Rocket Punch love with a hand-screened logo t-shirt.
We also have pizza peels, bread boards, and cheese boards made from natural exotic woods.
Find us at 201 Becker Ave, 8am-1pm. Folks line up for sourdough at 7:30am; it sells out fast.
