Purcellville Community Market
Dear Market Goers,
I am ecstatic to be able to introduce the two new vendors that will be at the market this week. A big welcome back to Violet and Bob Le Brecque of 1st Avenue Bakery! I and so many customers have missed indulging in their excellent pies and cakes at the market. They won the best pie at the state fair for 20 YEARS IN A ROW!!! Then they decided, “nuff said” and retired from that competition. And now they’ve decided to come to “the Best Little Market in Loudoun”. Someone surely is smiling upon us! Stop by their booth and give them a hearty PCM Welcome.
And if that’s not enough great news, we will now be able to buy whole, pasture raised chicken raised by Ken Matich of Liberty Hill Farm. His farm is right over the mountain, close to the Abbey. I can’t tell you how much it means to get premium chicken at the market. This will be a wonderful addition to the excellent beef, pork, and lamb from our incredible purveyors. Fort Bacon has chicken sometimes but it is in so much demand that they sell out within a couple of markets. Liberty Hill will eventually be bringing eggs too. We also have two vendors that sell out of eggs every week and really need more to provide to our customers
In other exciting news, check out our advertisement in the Purcellville Gazette! The ad has our singularly distinctive, exquisite, yet lively sunflower logo at the top and a list of the market events in the body of the ad. You will be able to check out this week’s events as well as future events. That will enable you to plan your entire existence around the market! I think I love my hometown newspaper even more…
AND DON’T FORGET….mark your calendars for July 10 because Mark Morrocco of Magnolias and our very own Lothar, will be performing for you at Purcellville Community Market! I’ve decided to call the event “Cooking with The Dynamic Duo”. Whaddya think? So who’s Batman and who’s Robin? Or maybe we should think of them as two superheroes in their own right. Not a superhero and a sidekick, because, let’s face it, Batman gets all the glory and Robin gets relegated to more of a secretarial role. I prefer to think of both Mark and Lothar as Superman and Spiderman or maybe something more culinary in nature like “The Flash” and “The Blade” (actual superhero names). Well you can decide for yourself. As I said before, we’ll give you more details as they make them up.
Music this week is by the beautiful Ellen James on the Celtic Harp from 9-10; it’s so nice to open the market with Ellen’s gentle, beautiful vocals and her harp.
THEN, from 10-11:30 is “Craggy Island”, a trio that plays a blend of Celtic and Old Time Music. Shamrock’s, a great new music store, owned by the enthusiastic Scott Kinney, in downtown Purcellville, will be sponsoring the music tomorrow.
Finally, here are the vendors that are comin’ to market!
The divine Miss P will be back from her vacation selling raw, whole milk cheeses at the Oak Springs Dairy tent this week. The Chef at Clyde’s stopped by the market last week to taste Oak Springs cheeses and absolutely loved them!
Bring a little sunshine to your life with Singing Frog Farms. Meredith Kope and friends from will have cucumbers, summer squash, and chard (all heirloom varieties) as well as lots of pretty flowers and herbs. They wsill have $3, $5, and $7 flowers, baby bouquets in mason jars for $3, sunflower and lavender bunches tied with ribbons for $5, and big field flower bunches for $7.
Rob Young of Community Gardens will be back at the market with his fantastic greens, arugula, sugar snap pea shoots, turnips, and who knows what else.
And now a word from the Lothar, the Master Butcher:
Dear Customers and Member Friends of the Good Taste,
Hello! It’s me, Lothar Your Butcher, and I would like to submit my offers for this week.
All about the Grill.. it’s so nice to be outside and have a nice grill-out: We have so many special cuts of meat for you and we have a special I create called “Lothar’s Cajun style Brats”. It is a limited production each week for Charity Louisiana Golf Coast. The Brats are USDA Inspected. You donate whatever you would like to donate (the Brats don’t have a price, only weight). At the end of the market Our Mayor, Bob Lazaro, gets the donation money and will bring the money in the right direction.
Also we have a lot of brats for the Grill: Nueremberger, Bavarian Country Brats, TEX-MEX BEEF, Korean Brats, Hot Mediterranean Style, White Brats, Thai Brats, Smoked Beef, Andouillie ,Pork, doppel Smoked Brats. Spiessbraten and VA Roast we have too.
Lothar’s lunch at the market this week is:
Market BLT and Lothar’s Meat Lovers Sandwish.
Think Global Eat Local,
Lothar, June and Jack Henry
North Gate Vineyard will be here this week now that their daughter has graduated from Valley. Don’t Whine. Just Buy Wine and Drink Wine! Now there’s a slogan to live by..
Mary Lewis of Woodgrove Lavender Farm will also have large heart wreaths for sale at $35 each, and small ones for $10 as well as her usual lavender products and potted lavender plants.
Gonzales
Betty’s Foods will have their chips, black bean dip, gazpacho, and enchiladas.
Kilmer Orchards is on vacation right now but will be back next week with lots of new produce and fruits! We’ll make a big announcement next week.
Message from Judy, maker of Liz Handcrafted Soaps:
You can tell it is summer when all you want to do is work in the garden and eat dinner on the deck! If you happen to have a small herb garden just off your deck, it is all the more rewarding. Judy’s lavender is blooming and begging for attention! It is a great herb to use for keeping the insects away, especially if you use only a tad of the essential oil and put it on your baseball cap to keep those pesky bugs at bay.
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Judy’s Lavender soap and her Lavender with Buds soap are a great follow-up to that summer-on-the-deck feeling. The scent of lavender simply completes the relaxation of the mind and body! Lavender essential oil is indispensable in the natural health world. Lavender has been used for centuries as a natural antibiotic (e.g., on a spider bite until you can get to the doctor), antiseptic, antidepressant, sedative, and detoxifier. In addition to the Lavender soaps, this week Liz Handcrafted Soaps will have Plan B once again, Mansoap, Sweet Musk, Peach (new scent), Honeysuckle, Angel and, yes, you heard it here first, Bug-Me-Not (this will NOT last long). Come and say hello to Ken and get a sample of soap to take home with you. See you at the market!
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Manna Food For Life will be back this week with a variety of breads and regular and gluten-free baked goods.
The Payne family will be back this week with more blackberries and black raspberries.
The handsome and debonair Mike Schreiber will be there with his fresh fruit smoothies. Ask for coconut sugar or Blue Agave nectar to make it the perfect health drink. Just worked out at the Purcellville Sports Pavillion, (which is where you can get them when the market is over) and finished one off. Golly they are great!
The Magnolia Girls will be in Charleston this week and will miss the market but will be back next week. We have a secret special vendor that will take their place for this week. And boy, you are going to love their specialty product!!
Hardworking Hondo of Hondo’s Coffee will be there with free coffee for our customers, beans by the bag and his pickles, pickled beets and sauerkraut. Hondo…please get to the market earlier. Hey, we love you, but we NEED your coffee in the mornings.
The lovely Sandra of Chef Eloy’s Kickin’ Salsa will be back this week with salsas of many flavors!
John Cockerill of Fort Bacon will be there with his incredible tasting pork and eggs. I told Michael Mercer, one of the owners of The Wine Kitchen in Leesburg, about how incredibly delicious their breakfast sausage is and he told me today that I WAS RIGHT!!! Don’t hear that often so I felt the need to emphasize.
The amazing Ann Higgins will be selling F&V Farms Shiitakes.
Linna the Locavore
As the summer gets hotter and the plants really start growing, something else is on the rise, BUGS! As an organic gardener, I am subject to a certain amount of bug damage, but I do my best to make this as minimal as possible. Repellent planting involves planting certain types of crops that actually ‘repel’ certain types of bugs. For example, Cucumber beetles dislike radishes and tansy — so planting these around your cucumber plants could actually keep this population down. Here are some rules of thumb, of course in my 1, 2, 3 formula:
The ‘repellant plant’ will provide protection of a certain crop, up to a distance of three feet. Some plants will be effective against a specific pest, some are effective against a whole variety of pests.
Garlic is offensive to most insects that you will see in your garden.
Two other ‘broad spectrum’ repellent properties include marigolds and mints.
To view a listing of common garden pests and the plants they cannot stand go to http://123foodgardening.blogspot.com/2010/06/repellant-planting.html
And don’t forget, we are on www.loudounfarms.org and we post pictures of happy customers and vendors each week on the Purcellville Community Market Facebook page.
Except for two weeks ago…..Grey, still need those pics! And check out our You Tube Channel! Our market table has all kinds of info: Flavor Magazines.. a great magazine about local foods in the Washington Capital Area Foodshed, recipes, cookbooks, you name it. Also check out the flyer about helping Oscar Deaver whose Eagle Scout project is a garden that supports Interfaith Relief. He has a Facebook page called “Food for the Hungry Purcellville VA”. He needs volunteers to help him tend the garden.
So come out on Saturday and purchase some great food, have a chat with your vendors and neighbors, sip some fresh coffee, and/or drink a refreshing smoothie (I do both) and have a bite to eat. We will be there from 9 to 1 at the Town Hall Parking lot at 130 E. Main Street in beautiful, downtown Purcellville. Look for the cannon…it’s point’n right at us!
Happy Eating and yes, I’M STILL LOATHING THOSE POWERLINES!
Juanita Tool
703.967.0431
Super Simple Orzo Pasta
½ lb ( ½ box) of Orzo Pasta (looks like rice!) – cooked according to directions on the box, but make sure you put a generous amount of kosher salt in the cooking water
2 tomatoes – seeded and chopped into ¼ inch pieces
2-3 tbsp of freshly minced Italian parsley
1 clove of fresh garlic – minced
3 tbsp extra virgin organic olive oil
Sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper – to taste
After you’ve cooked and drained the pasta, add the remaining ingredients and serve warm or at room temperature. Keeps well for one or two days in the fridge, but should be brought back to room temperature before serving. Makes 4-6 servings.
Produce will have lots of produce from their farm on the Northern Neck where it is 6 degrees warmer, on average, than Purcellville. They have a little over 20 acres that they farm in Montross. The patriarch has been farming for over 25 years and the sons have always been around dad and his farming business. About 4 years ago his back pain was so severe he became disabled so he gave it to his sons Robert, Jose, and Joaquin to manage it so it would survive. The three of them work the land are growing more produce than their dad. They are in the fields 7 days a week and love their winter break!
