Here comes the next great apple- the Snow Sweet, developed at the
University of Minnesota, the same Pomologists who gave us the
Honeycrisp. It's a sweet apple, with just a bit of tartness. Its snow
white flesh is very slow to turn brown after cutting. This makes it an
ideal apple to cut into slices for snacking and for salads. Great for
cooking, baking, canning, freezing, for cider, sauce. It's also really
great for eating.
The Macoun apples have started a bit early this
year. It's a great eating apple, also good for apple sauce. Pronounce it
"macown", not macoon. Most people will think you are weird, but farmers
will be impressed.
Many members have expressed a desire for Grapes
with seed. We now have Concord and Niagara Grapes with seeds. On Monday
10/10 we expect our first Ribier Grapes, a huge long black grape with
seeds. The season for the seeded varieties begins later than the
seedless. The only grape with seeds that we have not been carrying is
the Red Globe. We have been unsuccessful in the past (horribly
unsuccessful), keeping the red seedless and the red seeded varieties
from being inadvertently mixed. We have gotten many complaints from
people who then inadvertently bought the wrong kind, so we will not be
able to carry the Red Globe until everybody promises to be good.
The Lychee season has probably ended for the year. I'm trying to trick the Lychees into making me wrong.
It
looks like the Corn season is over. Now that conventionally grown sweet
table Corn could include some product that may be genetically modified,
we will not be carrying sweet corn this winter. If we can find a grower
who will guarantee non-GMO product we will carry it, but it may be
difficult to find one.
Oyster mushrooms herald the beginning of the
fall variety of mushrooms. Look for other varieties soon, including
chanterelles and lobsters.
Amy Hepworth has dropped our cost of Heirloom Tomatoes to $1.50 per pound (from $2.00). Next week she is
cutting our cost per cup of Cherry Tomatoes to $1.50 per cup (from
$2.00). She wants us to eat more Tomatoes and she wants us to eat them
faster.
We have 10 kinds of Winter Squash this week, and will have at least 13 next week.
We have a new PSFC all-time record for local items - 140!
- Allen Zimmerman
General Coordinator - Produce Buyer
