Weekly Update for July 24: Free Grilled Samples, Downtown Location

Bring your appetite to this week's market. The Master Gardeners will be grilling up some tasty buffalo meat and assorted vegetables. If you haven't yet tasted buffalo, it will be worth your time to come downtown and see what you've been missing. And yes, we will be downtown again this weekend, even though it is fair week.

As an added bonus, our wonderful Master Gardeners also just finished production on a great recipe book. Now, you can not only get the ingredients to make delicious meals, but you can also find out how to make them.

What else you may find at the Farmers Market this week: Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Red, All Blue, and Yukon Gold Potatoes, Onions, Cucumbers, Green Beans, Beets, Cabbage, Peppers, Eggs, Breads, Zucchini, Squash, Jams and Jellies, Buffalo Meat, Dried Flowers, Flavored Vinegars, Smoked Brisket, and much, much more!

We hope to see you there. Bring a friend with you!

Weekly Update for July 24: Free Grilled Samples, Downtown Location

Bring your appetite to this week's market. The Master Gardeners will be grilling up some tasty buffalo meat and assorted vegetables. If you haven't yet tasted buffalo, it will be worth your time to come downtown and see what you've been missing. And yes, we will be downtown again this weekend, even though it is fair week.

As an added bonus, our wonderful Master Gardeners also just finished production on a great recipe book. Now, you can not only get the ingredients to make delicious meals, but you can also find out how to make them.

What else you may find at the Farmers Market this week: Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Red, All Blue, and Yukon Gold Potatoes, Onions, Cucumbers, Green Beans, Beets, Cabbage, Peppers, Eggs, Breads, Zucchini, Squash, Jams and Jellies, Buffalo Meat, Dried Flowers, Flavored Vinegars, Smoked Brisket, and much, much more!

We hope to see you there. Bring a friend with you!

Weekly Update for July 18: Sidewalk Sales, Squash and Stuff!

This Saturday, a trip to downtown Clay Center is even more enticing. Not only can you pick up the fresh, home-grown produce and meats and homemade products you've come to expect at the Farmers Market, plus swing through Tasty Pastry for your morning coffee and roll, but you also can enjoy the sidewalk sales. Most of the downtown businesses have some great deals right now, on all sorts of items. Whether you're picking up ingredients for a delicious supper, the tools to grow your own, or the utensils to cook it in, downtown Clay Center is the place to be this Saturday morning.

What you may find at the Farmers Market this week: Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Corn, Red, All Blue, and Yukon Gold Potatoes, Onions, Cucumbers, Beets, Cabbage, Peppers, Eggs, Breads, Zucchini, Squash, Jams and Jellies, Buffalo Meat, Dried Flowers, Flavored Vinegars, Smoked Brisket, and much, much more!

We hope to see you there. Bring a friend with you!

Weekly Update for July 11th, Tomatoes are coming! Tomatoes are Coming!

It was great last week to see so many new vendors at the Clay Center Farmers Market. More vendors mean more great products and produce to chose from. At our local market, you may find tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers, green beans, yellow beans, buffalo meat, baked goods (that bread looked delicious last week!), zucchini and assorted squash, cucumbers, potatoes (red, white, and blue), onions, beets, okra, seasoned vinegars, jams, jellies, eggs, and much more! We might even have some sweet corn available this week.

This heat, while annoying to most, means our tomatoes are red and ripe for the picking. So if you’re craving a BLT, or maybe just some sweet cherry tomatoes, don’t miss Saturday’s market.

Don’t forget to bring the kids. The Master Gardeners have great activities for them, too. So, make it a family affair this Saturday and come down to the westside of the Courthouse square.

July 4th Farmers Market and Patriotic Potato Salad

I hope everyone starts off the Fourth of July with a trip down to the Farmers Market. We will have the following, Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes, Red, White and Blue Potatoes, Cucumbers, Onions, Beets, Yellow, Light Green and Dark Green Zucchini, Round Zucchini, Crookneck Squash, Pattypan Squash, Papaya and Lemon Squash, Buffalo Meat, Eggs, Peppers, Fruit and Pepper Jams and Jellies, Breads and other baked goods and MUCH, MUCH more!

We hope to see you there!


Patriotic Potato Salad
Serves 4-6
Print recipe only here.

2 pounds total of russet, purple, and red-skinned potatoes
2 stalks celery, diced (about 1/2 cup)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons white balsamic vinegar**
1 tablespoon water
2 tablespoons each fresh basil and parsley, thinly sliced
6-7 cranks of freshly ground black pepper
a generous sprinkling of salt, to taste

Scrub the potatoes well, rinse thoroughly, and pat dry. Cut into 1-inch pieces. Add to a medium size pan of water (with a couple of splashes of white vinegar, if desired). Bring to a boil; reduce to a simmer, and cook until potatoes are tender yet still firm to the touch, about 8-12 minutes.

Meanwhile, whisk olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, water, herbs, salt and pepper in a small bowl, and set aside.

Drain potatoes, and place in a large bowl. Add diced celery, and pour vinaigrette over the potatoes. Gently stir to avoid breaking the potatoes. Serve at room temperature or chilled. (Potato salad tastes better after it sits at least a few hours.)


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