Arlington County Government, VA Food For Thought, 15 Jul 2010

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From YouTube: Ballston Farmers Market

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Every Thursday in Ballston, you can find some of the best sights, sounds, and smells the area has to offer. Travel down to (cross streets) just across from the metro and you find the Ballston Farmers Market, one of 7 farmers markets in Arlington alone. Fresh baked breads, exotic teas, hand picked produce...that's just the beginning...

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Thursday's, never tasted so good in ballston, just across the street from the ballston metro is the Boston farmers market. It's one of seven farmers markets in Arlington, which includes fresh-baked, breads, exotic teas, hand-picked produce and so much more.

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This is the woman, you need to know and say hi to make sure you say hi to Jessica. When did the farmers market begin here about five or six years ago, and how does the market contribute to ballston the community? It brings.

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People into Boston- that's essentially, why we're? Here we want to bring more people into the Boston area. We want to celebrate this area, it's beautiful I mean look at this park is great and the people here are so friendly they're. So nice and I definitely think this is an asset to the community and do you think it contributes to better than healthier eating? I, definitely think it helps people eat better. It's easy!

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You know some of the problem, I think is actually going actually finding the the right fruit finding the right for fronting fruit and vegetables that taste good and here you'll find it it's all local farms, its local producers and it's good quality healthy, eats, and it's easy to get to because you just off pop off the metro. Your house is right here and sews farmers market.

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What's your favorite part about coming um besides the food I guess it would have to be just the fact that we're so nichy, like you're, not gonna, find the whoopie pie person anywhere else. You want, you know to talk. You just want to hang out on a beautiful day like today. This is just a great place to hang out plus we have music two in the afternoon and that's always a good time in ballston. This is the only farmers market. We have an arts and crafts market. That is the second saturday of every month.

B

That's Arlington's! Actually it's Arlington's. Only one hundred percent handmade market talk.

A

More jessica looks like you put on a great market, now I'm ready to go check it out for myself. Thank you very much. You think you have fun.

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This is not your typical produce counter at the grocery store. Chido tell us how fresh this produce is well.

C

We don't have to leave to the market to 11 in the morning, so we pick all our stuff right before 11. So.

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It's picked today. Yes,.

C

Everything is freshly baked today. I have take every one of these things and.

A

You sell it to hi.

C

Episode, yes, we sell blueberries, blackberries tomatoes, three types of beans, all types of peppers and squash, onions, jalapenos everything you can think of the thing. That's probably I. Just came we just started picking is the heirloom tomatoes there's a lot juicier and sweeter than regular Tomatoes.

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It's normal if it looks like this yeah.

C

They're pretty ugly-looking, so most people don't like to try them but actually try it the first time they like it doesn't.

A

Even need any salt, it is juicy now your turn. These.

C

Are called a white eggplant they're a little bit of different from these? These are a little bit sweeter and then these so a lot of people like those too. Would you like to try this? Oh, it's a sweet, pepper.

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Spicy, oh my god, now your turn I! Don't.

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Been dying to know what are these those.

C

Are called the purple hope, their type of peas that you a shell or you can just boil so.

A

There are peas, well.

C

They're lot sweeter and a lot more tasty than the regular beans am.

A

I supposed to eat the outside of it, no.

C

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The culinary herb farm, what do we have here? We.

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Have everything was grown in person only 12 miles away? These are my own herb mixes. I play with it. This is a southern barbecue. We got a little bit of paprika. We got a regular onion salt pepper. You can do burgers ribs. My.

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Sliders yeah, you have a recipe on the back, so southern barbecue Hickory to aggress.

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And I have dozens of recipes on my websites. If you get stuck, you can look up like lamb, chops or you know. Chicken pizza paid with potatoes and I got a cold infuse all worlds as well, so homemade olive oils in yeah, the rosemary, coming out pick it before it blooms, oh yeah, so very.

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Fragrant with Rosemary's it's it's all the freshest. You can.

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We're at the baguette for public hello, how.

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We wonder what.

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Are you sell here well.

E

I feel all kind of bread, like you guys seen here. Everything is fresh baked daily and everything is natural. Everything is organic and fresh and heavy, and how much hey it's a three pound sandwich bread. It's a multi grain sandwich bread. When were these loaves baked baked this morning, our bakery is 24 hours, bakery y'all working the whole day, the whole 24 hours, so these ones that they go to the market chicken baked in the mornings. When you bake them in the morning, so they can be fresh. What.

A

Types of breads, the variety do holla.

E

Yes, we have on bread, we have our oatmeal sandwiches, we have a wheat berry sandwiches. We have one not raising girls, which is one of the best sellers. We have farmhouse wheat, bread, Portuguese bread. Then.

A

You have these baguette sandwich bag. It's one.

E

Of the best things that we do, wow yeah.

A

That's a big one. Your bad debts are go really well with parole upon. Yes, that's.

E

What some people to like combinations right? Oh yeah! We got next to each other very.

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Smart yeah strategic I, like that.

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We're the official tea company of the local Alzheimer's chapter, so I developed three teas for their women's initiative, which sixty-eight percent of the victims are women, there's a black tea, a green sea in an herbal blend, and we give 25% back. We carry rooibos, which is from South Africa good for cholesterol, heart health, of course, brain health. We're a premium loose leaf tea company summer, limited edition. Oh, that's! The tub tea, so I take expired, green and white tees and blend them with sherpa salts.

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You can absorb antioxidant, then they put it in the top yeah they're giant tea bags, and you can soak in them and absorb that. You can sip your tea and you can soak in your team.

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Training Gamla.

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Stan lounge nice to meet ya.

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You're the meat man- yes ma'am, tell me when she got here, I.

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Have pork beans and chicken we do not use these steroids, growth hormones, antibody, an animal by-products and mr feed ration. My farm is in Shepherdstown West Virginia between hottest area chefs and fifth generation. We have smoked pork, chops, smoked ham, steaks country, ham, steaks cut the cured ham and is with most of the fear and also with vegetables. The freshness is here compared to you, veg supermarkets. There may be a week two weeks older, so same way. The beef is, is the vegetables?

G

You had a fresh taste, the same way with the fence and everything like then we have come in flavors of pork. Barbecue is fully cook, but the pork it was walking Monday the chickens were probably walking in monday or tuesday. You.

A

Saw these two: yes, do you what those are, what what.

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Do you think they are I'm? Put you in snake peacock feather, yes, you're correct everyone thinks they're ostrich feathers or some other bird, but they're actually peacocks, and we have about 1820 peacocks in our farm. That brother is the very top of the fan and usually in between the states. They have about anywhere from five to nine rows are the ones that has the normal I that you think of as a peacock bet, most people file for cat toys or for flower decorators.

A

What is a whoopie pie, a.

H

Whoopie pie is like a cupcake, but it's in a little sandwich form. We made them little bitty so that they are as guilt free as possible. Oh looks so and at they are 135 calories. There are three points on with Watchers there, three or four perfect bites of delicious. That's.

A

Perfect and they're all homemade how.

H

Fresh is this that was made yesterday. We were one of six items chosen by USA Today, but a mother's day. Gift guide this year, oh we've been in Food & Wine magazine. Oh.

A

The taste buds are everywhere right now that tastes like a decadent piece, not overwhelming or too rich, but a decadent delicious piece of chocolate. Hey there, you go, I, see you of other goodies, so.

H

These are only for the market peach cobbler, blueberry cobbler. We brought sweet potato pie- oh my god, how good this out old family recipes when.

A

I was a soulful.

H

Otter, a good job. Thank you. I am.

A

Arlington farmers markets provide a wide variety of local foods and flavors the Boston Market practically in your backyard. So it's a great place to visit every thursday from three to seven for more information visit our webpage or find us on facebook. There's still a lot more to come. So stick around.

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