New Morning Farm market and the UDC Van Ness farmers market are both opening for the 2021 season on Saturday, May 1st. Also back for the season: the markets’ social distancing rules and mandatory mask wearing. The New Morning Farm market at Sheridan School (36th Street and Alton Place) will be taking online preorders again […]
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Farmers market updates: New Morning Farm at Sheridan returns; More vendors at UDC Van Ness market
New Morning Farm The New Morning Farm market’s two month-long spring break is over. The market returns to Sheridan School on Saturday, June 6th and the Tuesday market reopens June 9th. The market is accepting preorders (more on that below), and drop-in shoppers remain welcome. The Saturday market’s first hour – 8 to 9 a.m. […]
UDC Van Ness farmers market updates: Vendors, preorders and how-tos
The UDC Van Ness farmers market’s May 2nd return was a soft opening of sorts – shorter hours, fewer vendors. The May 9th market sees the return of the usual 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. hours and the return of familiar produce sellers, including G. Flores Produce. New this season: The location in front of […]
Market Finds: A popular winter squash is a summer harvest
A month ago, we learned how the farmers market that comes to Sheridan School every Saturday (and some Tuesdays) from June through March manages to produce spring and summer greens in the cold of winter. New Morning Farm’s first newsletter of the new year reveals another trick of the trade: A fall and winter delicacy […]
Market Finds: Winter greens grown in ‘tunnels’
by Marlene Berlin While shopping recently at the New Morning Farm market at Sheridan School, I overheard them describe growing greens in a “tunnel.” My vision of an underground bunker with lights was soon dispelled in my telephone conversation with Jim Crawford, who for more than 40 years has owned and operated this certified-organic farm […]
Market Finds: Pumpkins – not just for jack o’ lanterns and pies
by Jenn Krasilovsky and Andrea Gudeon Pumpkins — whether baked in a pie, flavoring a latte, or perched on your front porch on the last night of October — are a popular sign of the season. But this versatile fall vegetable should also have a starring role on your dinner plate. Many of the hundreds […]
Market Finds: Think beyond lettuce for a fresh seasonal salad
by Andrea Gudeon If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? What is the sound of one hand clapping? Is a salad a salad without lettuce? Okay, maybe this last one isn’t yet one of the great philosophical riddles of our time, but […]
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Sometimes, the farmers at the Van Ness farmers market are UDC researchers
by Mamatha Hanumappa If you are a regular visitor to the Van Ness farmers market, it is very likely that you do not need an introduction to the University of the District of Columbia. But did you know that UDC is a land-grant university in the heart of DC? Yes, UDC is the only urban […]
The perfect tomato at New Morning Farm market
by Marlene Berlin Compari and Kumato tomatoes get me through the winter. At least, they try. But there is nothing like biting into that first big, bright red perfect tomato from the farmers market…. one that not so long ago was straight off the vine. It looks like all those beautiful but tasteless ones you […]
Van Ness farmers market reopens May 4 with local produce and local makers
The UDC/Van Ness Main Street Farmers Market opens for the season on Saturday, May 4th. It’s returning to the same location (the UDC law school at 4340 Connecticut) during the same times (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.). The farmers are returning for another year. The DPW compost collectors are back. And so are the local […]