This is Farmer Brooke and I have some very exciting news:
The BADSEED Farmers Market (every Friday night from 4-9 PM) is now accepting food stamps!! We have a fancy little machine that allows us to swipe your EBT card for the desired amount. That amount can then be used towards purchases of fresh produce, artisan goat cheese, breads & treats, gourmet mushrooms, free-range meats, organic coffee, wheat grass, kombucha, and any other mouth-watering delights the market has to offer. Heck yeah! Tell your friends......
This is a BIG deal for me as a (low-income) farmer. To be perfectly honest, I often lament at the fact that I grow food for rich people! Local-organic food should not be exclusive to the upper-middle class. It should be available to everyone. However, that is easier said than done when we have an entire nation addicted to and dependent on factory foods. A big pat on the back should be given to theindustrial food system and agribusiness for managing to make a McDonald's extra value meal cheaper than your average head of cabbage at the expense of our health and integrity..........not to mention the exploitation of our environment and human labor.
The truth is good food just isn't cheap. But it is a lot cheaper than the real costs of the other stuff. Let's put it this way - a head of cabbage is a heck of a lot cheaper than the average medical bill or your monthly prescriptions.
Alright, alright, enough with the "food activist" bit.....let's move on to the "sexy talk":
***Sexy Veggie of the Week***
This
week's
runner-up
is...
none
other
than...
FLAME Gourmet Cutting Lettuce. With her frilly maroon leaves and sweet disposition she is sure to tempt even the most discerning lettuce connoisseurs. Find this hot-red mama in BADSEED Farm's Red Velvet Lovers Mix - an incredibly sensuous (all red) salad mix with ruby accents of baby red chard, bronze fennel, and neon orange nasturtium flowers. This mix is absolutely off the radar. Available in limited quantities. Impress the one you love....
And now the moment we've all been waiting for.....this week's grand prize winner (drum roll please) is RAINBOW CHARD.
So help me God.....this is one sexy veggie. Her ooooh sooooo luscious leaves with neon stalks in fuchsia, canary yellow, burnt orange, and deep red are enough to put a farmer over the edge. She sways gracefully in the field singing "saute me" with olive oil, sea salt, yellow raisins and pine nuts.......or just wear my giant leaves as a hula skirt and dance around.
Pictures are attached. Go crazy.
Movingright
along....
New Vendor Alert
Please give a buzzing welcome to Les Miller of Millers HONEY!! Boy oh boy does this man know how to charm some bees!! Miller produces pure, raw, extraordinary honey using holistic and sustainable practices. Les has a heck of a story. He grew up in Sugar Creek near the infamous Amoco Fuel Refinery. Due to necessity he spent his child hood in the dirt growing food for his entire family. Today, many of the folks he new back in ole' Sugar Creek suffer from cancer. He attributes his long-standing good health to home-grown foods and a whole lotta' honey. For the last couple years Les has been fighting the City of Independence to keep his bees. The bureaucrats have backed off for now and those bees are still a buzzin'. Good thing for us honey lovers. Bee sure to get as taste this Friday.
Okay, so it is memorial day weekend and I know you have some big plans. How about going "local" for your festive feast. We can help you out with this week's organic offerings:
BADSEED Farm, Brooke Salvaggio & Daniel Heryer (South KC) www.badseedfarm.com
*Heirloom Transplants (last chance to deck out your organic garden)
*Sex in A Bowl (badseed's signature SALAD MIX with chocolate mint, dill, and chive blossoms)
*Arugula (it's back...its bad)
*Asian Invasion (a spicy salad mix or stir-fry mix with tasty asian greens and garlic chives)
*BADSEED Braising Mix (with baby kale and baby chard.....yum)
*Red Russian KALE & DINO KALE (that's right, new this week, eat em' up)
*RAINBOW CHARD (remember what I said about the hula skirt)
*Red Velvet Lovers Mix (with FLAME Gourmet Cutting Lettuce)
*Garlic Scapes!!!! (those sexy shoots that snake out from the garlic stalk)
*Fresh Garlic Chives, Oregano, Thyme, Chocolate Mint, Savory, and Russian Tarragon
Herb"N"Gardener, Lew Edminster (Westside, KCMO)
In the words of the lovely Lew (hence the quotes):
"this week i'll be toting my usual many,many tubs of greens for salads and sauté pan. my standby superior all star mix will be in abundance along with a good load of mild mesclun mix and the larger luscious red rocky top. there will be arugula and the huge hit of multiple mustard greens including the golden frills that matches up with the arugula like a twin edible. you'll have to make up your own mind if it's orgasmic and fit for a food perv, or just plain old damned good eats. my kales are having a hard time catching up to demand of newly committed kaleavores, but i'll have some early at any rate.
i'm bringing the gallon pots of california rosemary that i forgot last week. this is going to be the last week i'll drag out the peppers and tomato transplant, so folks should get their needs calculated this week."
Platte Prairie Farms, Steve Mann (North KC) www.prairietrading.com
Steve is busy with planting this week. Catch him next time!
Bigg Blue Farm, Stan & Carmen Biggs (Mosby, MO)
*Green onions in red, white and yellow
*Mustard Greens
*Radishes - cherry belle, white icicle (hotter than hell!!), French Breakfast & more tasty heirlooms
*Swiss Chard & Beet Tops
*Herbs
PJ's Mushroom Farm, Paul & Judy Miller (Warrensburg, MO)
*A whole lotta' Shitake Mushrooms!! (try em' on the grill on skewers marinated in tamari and tarragon for your barbecue weekend)
*Oyster Mushrooms
*Farm-Fresh Brown Eggs
*Cornish Hens (only three left!!!)
*Hand-made crafts
Parker Farms, Tom and Paula Parker (Richmond, MO) www.parkerfarmsmeats.com
*A variety of 100% grassfed beef and all natural pork including:
*Pork chops,
*Chipotle brats with cheese or cranberries
*Pre-cooked franks
*Chili Cheese Links
*T-Bones
*Rib steaks
*KC strip steaks
*Stew meat
*Beef Roasts
*Homemade soy based candles and gourd birdhouses (compliments of their lovely girls who grew the gourds on the farm!!)
(I don't even eat meat and my mouth is watering!!!......)
*sandwich breads
*savory breads
*sweet breads
*specialty treats (vegan as well)
**ALL MADE FROM 100% Locally Grown, Organic Wheat!!!!
Puddin' Head Coffee, Harry Lee, (Raytown, MO) www.puddinheadcoffee.com
*Only the BEST fair-trade/organic/micro-roasted coffee in town!!
Get yourself some beans or grab yourself a mug.
COFFEE BY THE MUG IS ONLY $1.00!!!!
....and thats not all!!! Other "Liquid Elixirs" will include WHEAT GRASS SHOTS & TRAYS from the lovely Angela Hoffman. This is hard red winter wheat and it is oh so sweet and oh so good for you. Take a shot and feel groovy.
Other goodies will include:
ARTISAN GOAT CHEESE from Goatsbeard Farm
Aged & Fresh varieties including Moniteau Blue, Prairie Bloom, Taum Sauk,Osage Orange, Herb Crusted Chevre, Marinated Chevre, and Greek-style Feta
**Try the Taum Sauk (a nutty, aged "slice of heaven" with intense and perfectly complex flavor) sliced and drizzled with a bit of Miller's honey for dessert. A common delicacy in Italy. To die for.....
Certified Organic Flour from Heartland Mill
An impressive selection will be available each week including all purpose, whole wheat, whole wheat pastry, golden buffalo, malted (for peak crust coloration), and blue cornmeal!! An artisan bakers dream.
and, of course, Kombucha Mushroom Tea (Brooke's home brew)
Sip while you shop!
LAST CHANCE to sign up for the following Urban Homesteading Course:
Canning & Preserving Workshop: Jams and Jellies!! To read the course description go to: http://www.badseedfarm.com/farm/?page_id=8
Remember:
LIVE NUDE VEGETABLES !! and other organic delights...
EVERY FRIDAY AT BADSEED
Yours Truly,
Brooke
- farmer and mistress of the BADSEED
BADSEED
An Urban-Organic Farm & Market
Celebrating Local Food, Culture, and Community
Celebrating Local Food, Culture, and Community
Fridays, 4-9pm
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