We’ll get to the fresh list in a second, but let’s take a moment first to appreciate the work of youth in Delridge and White Center. FEEST, the Food Empowerment Education and Sustainability Team, is a program where young people cook together, making space every week to discuss their lived experiences and how they relate to food justice. They use vegetables to build community power and change the shape of food systems in their neighborhood and in their lives. Maybe you’ve seen their “Make Food, Make Fam” and #EatReal ads on busses and billboards around town? A response to being inundated with fast food restaurants and marketing from soda and junk food companies, this is their counter-marketing campaign encouraging strong relationships through healthy eating. All of this work is youth-led, designed, and implemented. It is amazing and inspiring and gives us chills every time we think about it. Check out the video to hear from youth about FEEST, go see the mural they did at Lee’s Produce in White Center, and look for their ads around town!
Now, on to the fruity business… Here’s what’s fresh this week:
Peaches – Early Red Haven, Clingstone – Collins Family Orchard, Selah – $2/pound
Plums – Collins – $2.50/pound
Apricots – Collins – $2/pound
Berries – Sidhu Farm, Puyallup – $2.50/pint
Watermelon, pink or yellow flesh – Alvarez Organics, Mabton – $.70/pound
Cucumbers – Armenian, lemon, and slicing varieties – Viva Farms, CityGrown Seattle & $1.75/pound
Corn – Magana Farms, Sunnyside – $.50/ear
Rainbow chard – New Holly Market Garden – $2/bunch
Beans, green & purple – New Holly Market Garden – $4/pound
Beets, golden and red varieties – New Holly & Ralph’s Greenhouse – $1.75/bunch
Cabbage, red – Ralph’s Greenhouse, Mt Vernon – $1/pound
Onions, Walla Walla Sweets – New Holly Market Garden – $2/bunch
Lettuce, Romaine – New Holly Market Garden – $2/bunch
Potatoes, mixed varieties, new crop – New Holly Market Garden – $3/pound
Summer Squash – New Holly & Hedlin Farms – $1.75/pound
Tomatoes, Beefsteak slicing – Red Shed Farm, Skagit Valley – $3.25/pound
Tomatoes, Cherry – CityGrown Seattle & Cedarville Farm, Everson – $3.50/pint