Farmers Market update for Saturday, September 11

September 9th, 2010 by Mary

Featured Farm*
Combs Fresh Herbs
Clelia Combs (with help from daughter Margaret)
Gahanna, OH
614-471-7015

How long have you been farming?
I don’t really think of it as farming, to me it is gardening. I’ve been gardening ever since I was a young girl growing up in Italy.

How long have you been coming to North Market?
I have been coming to the North Market for 22 years. I first started coming in 1988.

What are your signature crops?
Oh, I grow lots of things that remind me of Italy: basil, of course, tomatoes, cucumbers, arugula and spinach. I make a special pesto that I sell at the farmers market and salsa sometimes too.

What is important to you about selling your items at the North Market?
I like the people that I meet here and that come to visit me every weekend.

How did you become a farmer?
I grew up in a family of florists and gardeners. My family was in the flower business. In the United States I started growing vegetables for my family, but eventually there was just too much and I started bringing the extra produce to the North Market.

Do you have any special farming practices?
I work very, very hard. I am dedicated to my garden and have to do a lot of weeding, especially this season as the weeds were terrible with the early rain. But gardening is a labor of love and I enjoy bringing the fruits of that labor to the North Market.
 

*Saturday Sampling: Chef Alana Shock of Alana’s Food & Wine will be sampling mixed vegetable risotto at the Combs Fresh Herb stand on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
 

Participating farms on September 11

Anderson Orchard I will be bringing pollenless sunflowers, zinnia bouquets, mixed flower bouquets, hardy banana plants, free range pork (Italian sausage, sage sausage and bratwurst), and apple dumplings made from organic apples.

Beech Meadow Farm  Pasture raised “Buckeye” eggs, 100% grass fed, dry aged heritage Angus Beef, premium grass-finished pastured chicken, and we are now taking orders for pasture raised TURKEYS.

Bridgman Farm This week we’ll have tomatoes, peppers, onions, eggplant.

Combs Fresh Herbs  Tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes and herbs.

Ehmann & Sons Greenhouse It’s time for fall MUMS! We’ll have a huge display with every color and variety that you can imagine!

Elizabeth Telling Farm CSA pickup only.

Hinkle Farm  Cabbage, cauliflower, maybe corn, eggplant,  flowers, onions, green or red peppers, tomatoes, and watermelon.
 
Honeyrun Farm This week we are bringing our comb honey, chunk honey, herbal-infused honey, 5 pound containers of honey, soap, gourds and pumpkins.
 
K & R Garden Fresh Produce We will have eggplant, flowers, Malabar spinach, melons, red and green okra, potatoes and winter squash.
 
Oakvale Farmstead Cheese We will be bringing our family’s Farmstead Gouda (caraway, regular, habanero and aged), homemade bagels and flavored cream cheese including jalapeno, blueberry and cherry almond and cinnamon pecan cream cheese coffee cake..
 
Ohio Farm Direct Whole milk cheeses including cheddar, mozzarella, baby swiss, pepper jack, garlic and herb, tomato basil pinenut and lemon zest. The beef is always trail bologna, summer sausage, and beef sticks. What makes them stand out is the wonderful nutrition and taste that comes from the 100 percent grassfed cows.
 
Persinger Farm  I will be bringing green beans, tomatoes, corn, okra, zucchini, yellow squash, peppers, eggplant, pickling cucumbers, beets, assorted winter squash including acorn, butternut, delicata and spaghetti, pumpkins (ghost and peanut) and blue Hubbard squash.
 
Quiver Full Farm We will be bringing: brown eggs, heirloom tomatoes (get them soon the heat is slowing them down!), honey, granola, scarlet and grey popcorn, potatoes, dried tomatoes, cornmeal, whole grain pancake mix, and stoneground flour.
 
Rhoads Farm Market This week we will have Brussels sprouts, late season vegetables and fruits. See you on Saturday or pre-order at rhoadsfm@bright.net
 
Shady Brook Farm We will have broccoli, garlic, green beans, green peppers, herbs, homemade pies, hot peppers, okra, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes amd tomatoes.
 
Thomas Family Orchard  The Thomas Family Orchard will be bringing 10 varieties of apples (Paula Red, Gingergold, Honeycrisp, Red Delicious, Gala, Jonathan, McIntosh, and Cortland), apple cider and seedless grapes to the market this week. 
 
Toad Hill Farm  I will have arugula, beans and cherry tomatoes.
 
 
Wishwell Farms Produce We will have broccoli and roma tomatoes.

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