Farmers Market
High Ground Organics at the Mountain View AND Los Altos Farmers Markets
Sunday Is Market Day at Mt. View! We have been selling at the Mountain View Farmers’ Market for more than 10 years. We are there every Sunday rain or shine throughout the year. We love this opportunity to have face-to-face contact and feedback from our customers in the Mountain View area.
Thursday Is Market Day at Los Altos! This is our first year at the Los Altos Market. It is an evening market for those of you getting off work and needing to pick up a little something for dinner.
Since we are primarily a CSA farm, we grow a very wide variety of vegetables and fruits for our customers. The Farmers’ Market and farmstand are a wonderful complement to our CSA harvests. While the CSA model allows us to harvest just the amount of produce we know we’re going to sell, we always need to plant more than we expect the CSA to use (to account for the variables that farming throws our way). Selling at a market gives us extra flexibility and helps us keep aware of what people like and don’t like.
This year at market we will offer an even wider variety of vegetables and fruits. Our new property will expand our season earlier and later in the year and will allow us to grow warmer summer crops as well as the cooler summer items we grow at our home farm. Also, our plantings of pears, apples, and blueberries will all begin to bear fruit this year!
Our organic Albion and Seascape variety strawberries are always picked ripe and are our most popular farmers’ market item. We expect to have strawberries from March through October or November (weather willing) again this year.
Here are some of the vegetables that we should be bringing to market in 2011: artichokes, beans (green, yellow, romano), beets (red, gold, chioggia), bok choy, braising mix, broccoli, butternut squash, cabbage (green, red, and savoy), carrots, cauliflower (white, purple and orange), celery, chard (red, green, gold), cilantro, collards, cucumbers, dill, fennel, green onions, kale (green, lacinato, red russian), leeks, lettuce (red and green leaf, red and green butter, little gem, romaine), mei quin choi, potatoes (red, gold, purple, fingerling), pumpkins (jack o’lantern, rouge vif d’etampes, sugar pie), onions, peppers (bell and padron), radishes, romanesco, salad mix, spinach, summer squash (cousa, three colors of patty pan, yellow crookneck, zucchini), tomatoes, turnips, and winter squash (many interesting types).
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