From Brandywine to Green Zebra: A Farmers Market Guide to Tomatoes | With tomato season in full swing, there’s a lot to love about the rainbow of variety you can find only at farmers markets. Solid, striped, or speckled and in red, yellow, green, purple, and every shade in between, tomatoes present an overwhelming amount of choices, while the names of the varieties are as intriguing as they are colorful: Black Prince, Early Girl, Mortgage Lifter, Green Zebra, Ivory Pear, and Pineapple. So amid all the variety, which tomatoes do you pick and what do you do with them? We put together some tips to help you navigate this juicy dilemma and make the most of tomato season. | |
| Tomorrow! Two Market to Table Cooking Demos | Stop by the Foodwise Classroom at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market tomorrow for a cooking demo at 10:30 am by Mica Talmor, chef at Pomella, followed by a cooking demo at 12 pm with Linda Shiue, MD, author of Spicebox Kitchen, and Hodo Community Manager Henry Hsu. | |
| We're Hiring! Education Manager: Foodwise Teens | Are you passionate about food, education, and working with young people? We're hiring a full-time Education Manager for Foodwise Teens, a paid job training program where teens build skills to sustain healthy lives and a healthy planet. The deadline to apply is August 12. | |
| Grilled Stone Fruit with Honey and Ricotta | Make the most of stone fruit season with this simple, delicious side. This recipe from Chef Shanti Wilson comes together quickly with just a few ingredients. | |
Ferry Plaza Farmers Market: Featured Vendors | |
Ramini Mozzarella Offers Fresh-As-Can-Be Cheese Founded by Audrey Hitchcock and her late husband Craig Ramini, Ramini Mozzarella offers fresh cheeses made from humanely raise water buffalo in Tomales. Ramini Mozzarella also offers ricotta cheese, made from whey, a byproduct of mozzarella production. | | Berry Season at Sunshine Organics Gladys Mondragon, and her husband Rafael manage the farm's two locations in Monterey County and Santa Cruz County, where they grow different types of organic vegetables as well as strawberries and cane berries such as raspberries and blackberries. | |
Mission Community Market: Featured Vendors | |
Summer Bouquets at Medrano's Flowers Bring home dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, and other summer favorites from Mission Community Market on Thursdays. David Medrano has been in the cut flower business for 30 years. Based in Dixon, California, Medrano’s Flowers is operated with the help of David’s wife Rosa, and his children Carla, Saul, and Mauricio. | | Pick Up an Original Print by Jen Kindell Bay Area based artist Jen Kindell believes in creating artworks that sing nature’s song into your spaces. She has been printing in San Francisco for 10 years. She will be at the Mission Community Market, her favorite farmers market, on Thursday. | | |
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