I hope you are enjoying your Canada Day, perhaps with Canadian food and drinks or (even better) Ontario products!
We had a nice meal of local chicken with BBQ sauce from Windsor Ravioli (in fresh buns with local lettuce), local green beans and steamed Dainty Rice. Dessert was easy with fresh chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies from Thibert Farms in Comber.
Richard from Thibert Farms joined us at our CSA meeting this weekend to tell us about his farm in Comber and all of the food that he produces. He has a great vision of what a farmer can and should provide to ensure quality products that we are comfortable eating.
Here's some of what is offered at Thibert Farms:
- Bakery products like cookies and bread (featuring the farm's own grains, ground using a stone flour mill that is located at the bakery)
- 60 % whole wheat stone ground flour
- Pancake mix
- Natural beef
- Pork
- Free range chicken
Orrrrr...
...this Saturday the Downtown Windsor Farmer's Market opens in the old Greyhound bus terminal! I am so excited for this and I know that many other are too.
Starting at 8am this Saturday, everyone can stop in and enjoy the outdoor market at 44 University Avenue East. The market closes at 3pm and runs every Saturday until October 10, rain or shine!
Stop in this week for Thibert Farms, Bradley's Potatoes, A&M Farms (veggies), Chana Foods (flour), and C'est Bon Nuts.
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4 comments:
What a pretty poster. This makes me a bit sad that I am leaving town for 5 weeks...just when this is opening. I'll be sure to patronize it in August, though.
a lot of food vendoprs sold out completely or sold most of what they brought! I arrived at the tail end of things after going out to our farm and Richard was in a VERY good mood!
I think most the vendors underestimated just how strong customer support would be for market opening day. Can't say I blame them. Even market supporters like ourselves couldn't help but be cynical after the string of failures that preceded this project. Who wasn't at least a bit surprised at how well things went on Saturday?
On that note though, savvy market goers also know that the early bird gets the worm. Even next week, if you want to go home with strawberries or other high demand produce, don't show up at noon whatever you do.
Noon? Try 10! That’s when we got there and there were no strawberries or beans or anything for me. :(
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