In 2022, Mill City Farmers Market welcomes a record number of new vendors, many of them founding their businesses during the pandemic as owners experienced layoffs in the food industry or chose to switch careers as part of the great resignation. Meet three of these entrepreneurs in our latest blog article from food writer Mecca… Read More →
Microgreens aren’t just for garnish! These flavorful and nutrient dense greens are a delicious way to eat locally grown produce year round, like in this recipe from our nutrition intern Olivia Jacobs. Feeling a little extra? Turn the recipe into a quiche with a frozen pie crust from our vendor Vikings & Goddesses Pie Co… Read More →
Need more greens? These easy meatballs are a great way to sneak extra vegetables into a classic. They taste just as delicious as the original, with the added benefits of spinach! Serve meatballs with tomato sauce and pasta (or zucchini noodles) or on bread for meatball subs. If you want to get your kids involved… Read More →
Note: If you don’t have any buttermilk, mix 1½ cups of room temperature milk with one tablespoon of lemon juice and let it stand for five minutes. Substitute this “clabbered milk” for the buttermilk and the ½ cup of milk in this recipe. Since this milk mixture is not as thick as buttermilk, the batter… Read More →
Vikings & Goddesses is a farm-to-table pie company owned by pastry chef Rachel Anderson. Vikings & Goddesses serves pie with a purpose by utilizing local ingredients like local butter from Hope Creamery and flour from fellow market vendor Baker’s Field Flour and Bread. For produce, Rachel has built relationships with local farms and partners like The… Read More →
Mill City Farmers Market vendor Prairie Hollow Farm shifts focus from summer to winter with deep winter greenhouse production for their winter CSA share. By Jenny Heck When farmers market scenery shifts to pumpkins, flannel jackets and dogs in Halloween costumes, many farmers take these cues as time to put their fields to rest and… Read More →
Instead of the hot water bath canner, take the simpler approach by freezing roasted tomatoes. This recipe comes from our vendor Jeff Nistler, owner of Nistler Farms. Jeff jokes that “in his spare time” he likes to roast tomatoes from the farm to bring out more of their flavor. He freezes them in a big… Read More →
How this summer’s extreme weather is impacting farmers markets’ most iconic crops: heirloom tomatoes, sweet corn and melon, and how Mill City Farmers Market vendor Jeff Nistler has been adapting on the farm for decades. By Jenny Heck “It’s like early childhood development,” Jeff Nistler explained as we rode through hazy fields of melons, flowering… Read More →
