A Saturday Farmer’s Market

So I realized that despite all of my sharing of the wonderful Sunday Baltimore Farmer’s Market, I haven’t shared my other regular farmer’s market with you. The Saturday Harbor East Market, on Lancaster Street.

Although significantly smaller than the Sunday market, this market has a few things that make it worthwhile. First off it’s all organic and despite it’s small size, they’ve made an effort to bring a diverse group of vendors together in a short period of time (this is only their second year!). There are people that sell produce, meat, dairy items, eggs, honey, bread (the wonderful Atwater’s) and even bison! And the location, which is right around the corner from Whole Foods, makes it easy to pop into while you’re doing a bit of Saturday morning shopping.

But the real reason we’ve started frequenting the Harbor East market is for community supported agriculture (CSA) pickup. When I was researching CSA’s last winter, I was delighted to find that One Straw Farm, a completely organic outfit from White Hall, MD had a few market pickup sites in the Baltimore area, including the Harbor East market. The great thing about market sites is that you are able to buy a half share (no way Noel and I can eat a whole share’s worth of veggies in a week!) and you can pick your items from whatever is available at the stand that week instead of getting the traditional box of stuff.

So far our CSA had been mostly green and leafy. Other items were scattered throughout (including very ripe strawberries and the best sugar snap peas i’ve ever eaten) but let’s just say I was really, really getting to love rainbow chard. <

But this week, it was a CSA bonanza! It was like the farm had exploded over the last week! There was corn! and squash! red onions! cabbage! eggplant! and chard, oh my! We actually had to weigh the pros and cons of the different items before settling on just four. And of course, it was all just so beautiful.

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