Coudersport Farmer's Market Is Shaping Up For A Great Year!

On Sunday, we had our second Potter County Farmer's Market group meeting and I feel that all the farmers are becoming very excited about the upcoming season.  We have a few new people joining the group and I know that our customers will be excited by the new additions.  Our market continues to grow, evolve and diversify!  

The meeting was a potluck and most everyone brought something that has elements of the food grown on their farm.  The pasta with pesto was divine.  The french bread had the perfect crunchiness.  Dilled garlic scapes made a fiery and tasty hit.  Lamb pate?  I've never had it before, but I hope to have it again!  Chili, lasagne, and much much more.  Every bite tasted absolutely delicious!  

When I get this season's scapes they will be canned in a dilly bean brine.

Thank you to the Metzger's of Metzger's Farm for hosting us!        

Beautiful Garlic

Alvie, from Wooleylot Farm, gave me these beautiful garlic bulbs while we were at the Farmer's Market on Saturday. The picture really doesn't do them justice.  I think they're so attractive they should be in a still life painting!

Alvie has saved and cultivated these lovely Pennsylvania heirloom garlics.  The garlic bulb on the left is Vkoos Odena "Taste of Odin," from Potter County and Alvie calls the one on the right  Ohman Red, from McKean County.  

This splendid still life painting features garlic...

~ from Fine Art America by Virgilla Lammons

But mostly, I can envision these gorgeous purple-streaked bulbs painted to lie at the base of one of these lush 18th-century still lifes.  Can you see it?

~Roses, Tulips and Poppies by Jan Franz van Dael (1764-1842)

“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.”

                          ~Alice May Brock


Please be sure to hop on over to Homestead Revival for the weekly Barn Hop - and to Wooleylot Farm for more information about the garlic in today's post.