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These days I’m buying a lot of my veggies at the cheap farm stand, but the Dupont Circle Farmers Market is still my source for fun and interesting veggies, meats, dairy, and so on.  There have been some neat new items at the market recently that remind me how fun it is to have access [...]

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Local Produce on the Cheap

Here’s a tip for DC residents who find the Dupont Circle farmer’s market prices prohibitive.  There’s a produce stand that just started showing up on weekends in the parking lot of the Embassy Row Christ Church (3855 Massachusetts Ave).  It’s a farmer from near Charlottesville who apparently used to sell at the Tenleytown market until [...]

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I was excited to get the following news in the weekly email from Freshfarm Markets:
New Farmer at Market: This Sunday, August 2, Moutoux Orchard is at our Dupont market with locally grown and freshly milled flours grown in Purcellville, VA. Robb Moutoux is growing wheat, spelt, rye and oats on his family’s farm. The organically grown flours [...]

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I got back to DC late on Sunday, which meant I didn’t get to make my usual trip to the Dupont Circle farmers market. But I did get my market fix back home in Olympia. The Olympia Farmers Market is one of the defining cultural institutions of my hometown, and probably explains a [...]

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Most fruits and vegetables occupy the red-orange-yellow-green part of the rainbow.  Blues and purples are less common, which in my mind makes them all the more special and beautiful.  Click on the photos below for extreme close-ups!

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Last Sunday I made my usual rounds at the Dupont market, but this time I kept track of exactly what I spent.  For $35 dollars, I brought home:

A half gallon of creamline milk, a wedge of specialty cheese, a quart of lard (more on that in future posts), a pound or two of green beans, [...]

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