Opening day shoppers The biggest change this year at the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market may be in personnel, but look for some variations on familiar tunes. (Do go to the market web site and sign up for the market newsletter. It will keep you updated on available products and events.) I got a chance to [...]
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I’m hereby declaring spring, and not a moment too soon for my taste. How do I know it’s spring? Two ways: The Lawrence Farmers Market opened on Saturday. Wind, rain, cold and gray skies greeted opening day the last couple of years, but not on Saturday. It was cool but brilliantly sunny, and about 30 [...]
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Today was my last chance to take advantage of the local bounty at the Lawrence Farmers Market—at least until the holiday market—and take advantage I did. I bought all I could carry the half-mile or so home and spent $28.50. And what a haul! The take included 2 good-sized butternut squash, three carnival squash, 10 [...]
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Would you pay more for an apple if it was produced with fewer chemicals? Probably not if it’s ugly, according to a paper by Chengyan Yue, Helen H. Jensen and others at Iowa State University. But maybe you’d reconsider if you knew that ugly apples can taste great. Take this apple, for instance. From the [...]
Applooza came to the Lawrence Farmers Market last weekend, and what a treat! Apples, apples and more apples burdened the vendors’ tables, and former market apple mainstay Laurie Walters answered questions under the market tent where 18 varieties of apple (by my count) were available for tasting. Walters (in red sweater) talks apples. I tried [...]
It’s been a great week for news about local and sustainable food. Hooray for summer! It’s farmers market week. Really, every week is farmers market week around here, April to November (give or take), but markets get a national nod this week. Rah! (K-State news) Blue-ribbon recipes. Try the prize-winning baking from the Douglas County [...]