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2008 Market Locations and Dates

West End Farmers Market - June 14, 24, 31  Aug 16,23,30  Oct 11, 18

Riley Park Farmers Market - June 11,18,25  Aug 13,20,27  Oct 8,15

NEW for 2008 - CSA - Community Supported Agriculture Program in Vancouver, BC.
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2008 Planting : What I am planting for 2008

Aspargus
I have started transplants and will be starting a bed of asparagus this year. It will be two or three years before the beds will be productive.

Beans
Dragon Tongue - Juicy, sweet, crisp wax bean with purple stripes. Excellent raw or steamed.
Venture Bush Bean - Sweet & tender. Idea for freezing or canning as they retain their flavour and colour.
Fortex Filet Pole Bean - My favorite. Long, slender, rich and tasty. I dream of pan fried pole beans with fresh garlic and a dab of butter.
Maxibel Filet - Dark green, slender, stringless gourmet bean of high quality and flavour.
Fagiolo Rampicante - Italian Pole Bean, deep purple and stringless. Popular European variety.
Goldmarie Romano - magnificent yellow Romano pole bean. Produces huge, tender beans.

Broad Beans
5B's Choice - Full Circle Seeds - selected locally for about 80 years. Huge straight pods that can grow over a foot long.
Windsor Broad Beans - Large, flat, green shelling beans. A European favorite.

Beets
Detroit Dark Red Supreme
Ruby Queen
Formanova-Cylindra (European favorite)
Red Ace - Pacific Northwest
Early Wonder - Bowseed and West Coast Seeds
Touchstone Gold - crisp greens tops, Roots are a vibrant orange.

Carrots
Bolero - extra sweet and crunchy. A good keeper.
Sugersnax F1 Hybrid - extra sweet, high levels of beta carotene.
Atomic Red - Red cooking carrot. Slender and high in lycopene.
Purple Haze - This stunning new variety was a 2006 AAS winner! Deep purple on the outside and bright orange on this inside. Sweet. Stirfry to retain the purple colour.
Fly Away - The best sweet, crisp flavour of the best Nantes varieties.
Healthmaster - 35% more beta carotene than other carrots. Deep reddish purple.

Summer Squash
Gold Rush - brilliant yeallow golden zucchini with stunning dark green stems. Clear colour and good eating.
Ambassador - mid green zucchini.

Winter Squash
Red Kuri - bright red-orange skin and thick dense, fine-grained yellow flesh that is one of the sweetest and tastiest.
Butternut - PNW Extra sweet and nutty.
Buttercup - turbna shaped, dark green skin. Sweet, meaty flesh is deep orange. Excellent baked or steamed. Stores well.

Swiss Chard
Silverado F1 - Heavily savoyed dark green leaves with white stalks. A taste test favorite.
Rhubard Chard - Beautiful, wide stalks and veins are deep burgundy red: the rich, dark green or purple leaves are deeply savoyed and have a wonderful flavour.

Potatoes
Yukon Gold - Oval, yellow skinned with shallow pink eyes and yellow flesh that retains it's colour when cooked. My favorite potatoe.

Sugar Snap Peas
Sugar Snap Pole Peas - PNW - a new generation of garden peas. A winner of the prestigious All American Selections Gold Metal. Crisp, crunchy and delicious.
Sugar Lace II - WCS - Stringless, delicious pods.

Lettuce
Red Butterworth - Heavy & firm with pale hearts. Red-brown overlay on leaves.
Winter Density Romaine - Soft, dark-green leaves.

Caulifower
Snowball Self Blance - PNW - white flower heads that are tightly clustered and delicious.

Basil
Foglia di Lattuga - large leaves, mild, perfect for wrapping around ricotta cheese.
Sweet Basil - Two Wing Farms - Wonderful, fragrant and excellent for pesto.
Lemon Basil - pale green foliage with a lemon taste and aroma.
Genovese - The pesto basil from Italy. Shiny large almond shaped leaves have a more pronounced flavour, miking it ideal for pesto.

Flowers
Gladiolus, Giant Cactus Zinnia, Purple Prince Zinnia, Brown Eyed Susan, Scabiosa Imperial Mix, Globe Thistle

Dill
Dukat Dill - a fine bougquet and flavour.
McKenzie Dill - traditional dill.

Spinach
Tyee F1 - thick, juicy and very tasty.
Giant Winter Spinach - intense green lance shaped leaves.
Bloomsdale Savoy - very sweet, thick and succulent leaves.

Brassica / Mustards
Giant Red Mustard - beautiful burgundy coloured leaves pack a proper mustard punch. Can be eaten raw or cooked.
Komatsuna - also known as mustard spinach. Leaves are mild and tender. Used in salads, stir-fried, steamed or in soups. Traditional in Japanese cooking.
Kyoto Mizuna - mild, sweet, feathery leaves for salads or stir-fry. Popular Japanese salad green.

Radish
Icicle Short Top - long cylindrical white roots, mild flavour.
Altaglobe - smooth red radishes.

Harvesting
I harvest the majority of the food the day before market to ensure maximum freshness. Many of the herbs are harvested immediately prior to a market. Many of the vegetables are harvest with the entire root system intact to enhance quality and freshness.

No pesticides are applied.
Organic methods are used, but we do not currently have organic certification.

The vegetables travel less than 5 km's to market.

The Ultimate in Freshness!