Anchorage Daily News

Despite cool, rainy weather, farmers in the area have crops coming up that don't mind those conditions.

Alex Davis said he has good supplies of cabbage, broccoli and lettuce. Good enough, in fact, that he has enough for market shoppers as well as restaurants.

Other crops he'll have at Northway Mall today and at South Anchorage Farmers Market on Saturday include fava beans, three kinds of chile peppers, cauliflower, kohlrabi, vine-ripened tomatoes, four kinds of beets, bunched greens, spinach and rhubarb.

Cranberry Ridge Farm cheese will also be available in 8-ounce packages for $15 plus goat cheese and several kinds of jellies.

Davis has a list going for people who want to order a pig or a duck for future butchering.

The Rempel family will join Davis at the above markets with carrots, beets in 20-pound bags, four kinds of potatoes, daikon radishes, romaine lettuce, sugar snap peas, green beans, and a lot of other good vegetables that like it cool.

Also open today is the South Anchorage Wednesday market from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of the Dimond Center Hotel.

Kenley's Alaskan Vegetables & Flowers will have celery, carrots, savoy cabbages, red and white slicing onions, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, turnips and a limited supply of jalapenos.

ON ICE

Over at 10th and M Seafoods, Dannon Southall said he has fresh silver salmon coming in at $5.95 per pound for headed-and-gutted whole fish and fillets for $8.95 per pound.

Fresh halibut is running $13.95 for fillets and $7.95 for whole fish.

He said he expects side-stripe shrimp in by Friday if you want to throw some of those on the grill. They'll cost $9.95 per pound.

Other fresh fish include Dover sole and cod fillets for $7.95 and rockfish for $8.95 per pound.

Alaska oysters cost $10.95 for a dozen, and the Pacific ones are a buck less. Live clams run $5.95 per pound.

If you got a little Cajun in you, or just like catfish, he has fillets for $7.95 per pound or the pan-ready fish for $6.95.

Trout costs $4.95 per pound, and ahi tuna is $16.95.

Find T.C. Mitchell online at adn.com/contact/tcmitchell or call 1-907-352-6716.

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