The Wednesday South Anchorage Farmers' Market's hours will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. behind the Dimond Center in front of the Dimond Center Hotel.
Among other farm stands is Glacier Valley Farm with English cucumbers, lettuces, sweet cherry and vine tomatoes. Vern Stock will have his selection of lettuce and early summer produce. Carol Kenley checks in, saying, "Even with an especially cloudy June, our market gardens look beautiful and we are ready for our first harvest."
She said she has been growing a garden for more than 30 years and they have the earliest zucchini they've ever grown, along with some early broccoli.
She will also have snow apple turnips, long green onions and crisp Cherry Belle radishes, leafy red-veined spinach, rhubarb and fresh herbs. She said the cherry tomatoes and peppers from the greenhouse are just coming on, so are limited in supply.
For more information about the market, contact Nancy Lampman, 529-7630, safm@gci.net or go www.southanchorage farmersmarket.com.
Sarah Bean of Arctic Organics said when the sun finally came out at the Butte area, then came the Matanuska wind.
"I'm wondering what excitement the wind is bringing. The crops are a little behind, but they look healthy," she said.
New this week at the farm: snow apple turnips with greens, a beautiful young crop of spinach, and possibly watercress. They will also have three kinds of kale, leaf lettuces, spinach, arugula, greens mix, tat soi, pac choi, mibuna, sorrel and radishes. Their herbs include fresh basil, marjoram, thyme, lovage, sage and chives.
Other vendors scheduled this week are Arctic Organics, Johnny Moose Farm, Matanuska Creamery, Bushes Bunches, Turkey Red Cafe, Sedovitsch Farm, Floriponics, 3 Bears Farm, ACAT, VanderWeele Farm and Alaska Seafoods.
Anchorage Farmers Market is located at 15th and Cordova in the Central Lutheran Church parking lot, and is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
At the Northway Mall today, Mark Rempel will have certified organic arugula, spinach, salad mix, cucumbers, zucchini and their blossoms, Snow Apple turnips, basil, cilantro, dill, summer savory, mint, three kinds of lettuce, beets, chard, mustard, kales, bok choi, napa cabbage, Asian greens, parsley, "and maybe ... just maybe, carrots and green onions," he said.
The market is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rempel is also at the South Anchorage Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Also at the Northway Mall market will be the Dinkels with vine-ripened tomatoes, strawberries, zucchini, leaf lettuce, pickling cucumbers and broccoli. They hope to have green beans and potatoes later in the week.
They'll be at the Wasilla market today, the Friday Fling in Palmer, the Downtown Saturday Market in Anchorage and the Center Market at the University Center.
Duane Clark will be at the Northway Mall today with grass-fed beef raised in Palmer: hamburger, steaks and roasts. He will take orders for pigs. On the seafood front, look for sockeye salmon from Prince William Sound and halibut, sablefish, scallops, rockfish.
Those will also be available at the University Center.
Local farmers markets
TODAY Wednesday Market, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Northway Mall Wednesday South Anchorage Farmers' Market, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., behind the Dimond Center, in front of the Dimond Center Hotel.
SATURDAY Anchorage Market and Festival, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Third Avenue between C and E streets Center Market, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., University Center mall South Anchorage Farmers Market, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Subway/Cellular One Sports Center at the corner of Old Seward Highway and O'Malley Road Spenard Farmers Market, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Spenard Road and 26th Avenue Saturday Eagle River Farmers Market, 9 a.m to 2 p.m. at Mike's Meats on the Business Loop
SUNDAY Anchorage Market and Festival, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Third Avenue between C and E streets
TUESDAY Eagle River Farmers Market, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., VFW Post Parking Lot
IN THE VALLEY Palmer Friday Fling, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Fridays at the Pavilion across from Visitor's Center Wasilla Farmers Market, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesdays behind Wasilla Public Library
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