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The following is copied for an Ottawa Citizen article by Laura Robin (link below)
What's this about the Parkdale Market?
A group of 10 producers, all members of the local-food group Savour Ottawa, have just been awarded a contract by the City of Ottawa to operate an indoor market at the newly renovated field house in the park, Thursdays through Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It's a pilot project that could become a year-round, local-food market.
"It's pretty exciting," says Paolo Copelli, markets co-ordinator for the City of Ottawa. "We're bringing more of the farmer's perspective back to the markets. We're even looking at extending the hours into the evening, depending on the support that people give it."
Who will be there?
"We're just in the crazy planning stages," says Stuart Collins of Bryson Farms, but at this point producers who plan to be there include Le Coprin mushrooms, Pascale's ice creams, Hallsall's honey, Fromagerie les Folies Bergères (sheep, cow and goat's milk cheeses), Hall's Apple Market (apples and cider), Stanley's Olde Maple Lane (maple syrup), Trillium Meadows (red deer and wild boar), Beking's eggs, Acer Farms (hormone-and antibiotic-free Red Angus beef), and Dusty Lane Farms (hormone-free), as well as Collins with his gourmet Bryson Farms products.
What does Bryson Farms have to offer in early May?
In addition to fresh salad greens, micro-greens, pea shoots and cooking greens from their greenhouses, Bryson will have its new line of frozen foods. They include frozen beans, broccoli, cauliflower, heirloom tomatoes and possibly the sweetest sweet corn on the planet. But Bryson has also recently begun turning out delicious prepared foods, including a certified organic vegetarian lasagna, flourless pizza, heirloom tomato tarts, marinara sauce, shepherd's pie and vegan soups and broth.
Isn't that a lot of people and products to get into a small building?
While all the products will be for sale, not all the producers will be there at once. Fridges and freezers are being installed in the building and the idea is that each producer will take a half-day shift each week, selling on behalf of all the others. "That way consumers will get to meet each of the growers, but at different times," says Copelli. Bryson says they plan to offer food samples so you can taste before you buy.
Outside of greenhouses, what are the first fresh local foods of the season?
Rhubarb and asparagus are the first up. Collins says they will have asparagus at the new indoor Parkdale Market that first weekend if it's up (and possibly fiddleheads, too). But that would be early. The Ottawa Farmer's Market is planning an Asparaganza celebration May 22, when the local crop should be in its full glory. Read more
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