Hi- I was going to post yesterday, but never got around to it. I never made it to the market last week because I was planning on going to a family reunion last Saturday in Michigan. When my sister from New Orleans and I headed out to go to the reunion, it was raining hard. We decided to go to it anyway. We got on Lake Shore Drive, and then got as far as Belmont, and decided to get off there and head on back to Evanston. Right after we got off LSD, I got the tornado warning on my phone.
Last Saturday was the first time in 10 years that the market closed early. Jon First told me today that the market stayed open after the tornado siren went off, but they finally decided to shut down the market because they could see the rain was not going to let up. He said he only had three dozen quarts of strawberries and two dozen eggs left by then, and he ended up giving them to Hillside. I am surprised that they even did pickup. I don't know where everybody went while the tornado warning was on.
A few people had blueberries, cherries and raspberries today. I decided to pass on all of those. I was not sure if the blueberries were any good yet, and one of the growers was charging $8 a pint for them. I got there too late for Henry's potatoes lettuce and garlic, but I bought a huge broccolini from Henry as well as some swiss chard and kale. I also bought a dozen eggs from Jon First for $5. They offered to sell me two dozen for $7, but it takes me a month to go through a dozen eggs, and so I passed. They were medium eggs with brown shells. It was really nice weather today. Nichols had lettuce for $5 or 3/$10, but I took a look at the lettuce, and it was not great. They also had sugar snap peas for $6 a quart, but that was more than what I wanted.
The blueberries should be a lot better next week, and hopefully they should be cheaper too. Stovers had a sign for strawberries today, but it looked like they were out. There should be sweet corn in about two weeks.
I noticed the sax players were back again. Hopefully they got enough donations today. It was good to hear music again. Hope this helps. Nancy