The Fairfield Winter Market is going strong. It was good to get down there after missing last week—snow, and lots of it, closed the market down. This week, I scored:
- Veal scallopine, veal chops, and frozen prepared lamb curry stew from Sankow’s Beaver Brook
- French country bread from Wave Hill Breads
- Yogurt and butter (yes butter) from Smyth’s Trinity Farm in Enfield. (Now I don’t have to make my own!)
- Carola potatoes and carrots from Riverbank Farm. (I met David today!)
- Patchouli soap from Goatboy Soap (I was down to two bars in the cabinet and I was starting to get nervous!)
It turns out that the town of Fairfield has an ordinance against selling raw milk, so if you want Beaver Brook’s raw milk, you need to get it at the New Haven market. Whassup with that, Fairfield?!
On the loop back, I stopped at Silverman’s Farm for apples (Cortlands and Macintosh) and some cider. Yes, you can still get fresh apples—not Macouns, but several other varieties are available. Yes, the Cortlands still crunch when you bite into them! I’ve been eating the dried and sauced variety and drinking cider for a month and was completely delighted today to bite into a fresh apple. So much so, I ate two!
YEY for the Fairfield market! I went there 2 weeks ago and was so glad to learn of it. The vendors were wonderful, especially having the veg from Riverbank farm. Apples, wheeee! You can store them too for a long time, I have some from October that are doing great and I keep replenishing the store. They sort of dry from the outside in, and stay nice and clean inside.
How is the Trinity Farm yogurt? I forgot to get some last week to try – tasty?
Oh, wanted to share: I forget exactly where you are in CT, but there are also winter markets on Saturdays running through April in New London (at Fiddleheads Coop), the Litchfield Community Center, and the New Haven Farmers Market. Um… here’s a link if you want to take a look: http://www.ct.gov/doag/cwp/view.asp?a=3260&q=398996
Hi Mangochild: I’m in Newtown, so New London and Litchfield are a bit out there. I have gone to New Haven several times and like the market a lot, but the Fairfield market is certainly the closest. The markets I go to most often are on my Foodshed page although most are closed right now.
That is weird about the milk not being able to be sold in that town. Odd.
You managed to score yourself some yummy sounding grub for the week. Fresh apples, wahoo! That is one of the only fruits (aside from pears) that we can get into the dead of winter here in the Midwests, Cortlands are the variety I picked up last time actually. And your carola potatoes! Yum! I think those are my favorite variety of potatoes.