The Farmers Market Box

SLOWING DOWN: I write this week’s report appropriately on the first day of summer, proclaiming on this longest day of the year that the sun and earth are in harmony. They have aligned to bring nature’s most edible bounty to our kitchens. I have included a video market tour to give you a true visual …

PERENNIAL WAVES OF GRAIN: Some serious sustainable food for thought… From Gourmet Magazine: By Barry Estabrook Wes Jackson’s now-grown children used to call him Dr. Doom. Kids will be kids, but that seems to be a particularly inappropriate moniker for a man with a keen mind and an impish sense of humor, who is putting …

You say To-May-To, I say To-Mah-To… Click on the link below for a preview movie of beautiful heirloom tomatoes in their early fruit stages… River Bottom Farms Heirloom Tomatoes MARKET REVIEW: Maybe I’m a softie this week, but for this week, I think it’s for the best… FOUR WORDS:  HEIRLOOM TOMATOES,  SUMMER SQUASH The time …

SUPPLY VS. DEMAND: Supply and demand is an economical model based on price, utility, and quantity (available) in the market.  In a competitive market, the model predicts that price equalizes demanded quantities and quantities supplied by producers, resulting in an economic equilibrium between price and quantity.  Clearly this is in a perfect world… In today’s …