Local Choice

I just received an email from the Nashville Farmers’ Market highlighting the goodies that will be around this weekend…

• Noble Springs Diary-goat cheese (a delicious variety of flavors) & feta from their farm in Franklin.
• Rebekah Grace Milk–chocolate, cream, 2%, buttermilk & more in their returnable glass bottles
• New this Week:  all-natural meals to go from Essentially Natural Foods.
• Last Saturday for our friends at Hill & Hollow–eggs, cider, some heritage turkeys may still be available for order
• Check with Walnut Hills for your Winter Meat CSA options
• Last weekend for our friends at Freedom Tree Farms
• Smiley’s Late Harvest produce-cauliflower, cabbage, small eggplants, peppers, & potatoes

Winter hours for the market are 8-5 everyday. While the market will slow down a bit in the winter, a handful of local vendors will still be selling their local delights through the season. And, it is the perfect place to stock up on Thanksgiving ingredients!

Sometimes the ugliest of tomatoes are the best tasting…

If your batch of heirloom tomatoes are looking particularly ugly this year, put down your fork and enter them in the Ugly Tomato Contest at the Nashville Farmer’s market this weekend. Drop off your tomato on Saturday, anytime before 1 pm, at the Farmer’s Market Booth. If your tomato is deemed the ugliest you will win a gift basket filled with a Market t-shirt, a market gift certificate, and a bounty of whatever is fresh that day. The tomato must come from your garden and cannot rotten.

If you are like me and never got around to planting a single veggie this summer you can still participate in the festivities. From 11 am to 2 pm on Saturday there will be an heirloom tasting featuring over 20 different varieties!

For more information and to sign up for the Market newsletter head to the Nashville Farmer’s Market website nashvillefarmersmarket.org