It was a Friday Field Trip down the highway and out of town!
First stop - the egg farm.
Next stop - Mennonite Nursery now the Mennonite Produce Store. They used to have a gazebo out front for produce and I miss it already.
Produce photos for Mr Merry so he can brag about prices vs his garden.
Our zucchini and squash are giants compared to theirs.
I threw an onion in the photo so he could compare sizes.
I think that is high for beans. Once you trim and sort the duds, how many beans will you end up?
Next stop, Mennonite Butcher. Pure lard is 2.75 a pound.
And beef tallow is $2 a pound.
And these delicious sausages we had for dinner tonight were only $3.01.
Next stop - Mennonite grocery store. It was crazy busy.
People could preorder boxes of blueberries and the word must have gone out they had arrived. This lady has 8 boxes in her cart. It was a madhouse. I went through the checkout and my friends were about 20 minutes behind the blueberries.
And the house with the next produce stand. One of my friends had preordered a 10 lb box of cherries from this stand.
Didn't get the prices in this shot (they were high) but look at the size of the black raspberries!
We had a rain storm and 100 degree heat and that brought on the corn. Every street corner has someone selling, the current prices is $5 a dozen.
The current state of my Mimi camp planning.
It was so depressing that my husband took me out for ice cream. And the ice cream stand was so crowded we went down the street and ate our ice cream in the truck while we watched the soy beans grow.
I started my festival baking tonight. My pies look awful. The first two lattice cherry pies overflowed on to the crust. And the cherry with the crumble topping does not look very crumbly. And the foil I put on the edge of the pumpkin attacked where the filling meets the crust. I am ashamed. Round two tomorrow.
My former co-worker called and reminded me that tomorrow is already the second Saturday of the month and it's our library retiree lunch. So I will be getting a late start.
Everything looks delicious 😋 I love Italian sausage and fruits and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking us along. I would love some squash and zucchini. It's so hot and we've had so much rain recently that I think I can hear the corn growing. It's way, way over my head now and I'm 5'10"!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Betsy
I bet the pies taste good! That is what matters. The fruits at the store look great! Nice place to shop!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the trip too, Miss Merry; thanks for taking us along! Loved seeing those Mennonites, and all that produce even if it doesn't compare to Mr Merrys. And boy are you being hard on yourself regarding those pies, they look delicious to me!
ReplyDeleteI just saw prices of $4.09 per lb for tomatoes at a grocery store. My friend Steve showed us a neat Amish grocery store that had some really great fresh produce and some tasty cookies and other foods in bulk. I don't need the bulk, but the fresh produce is certainly something I desire!
ReplyDeleteGood for you. I'm going to have to see if Olive has any green beans that need picking this week. I am out of the ones from last year.
Thanks for this wonderful post.
Miss Merry - you have far too much going on. I think you need a break! :)
ReplyDeleteI wish we had a produce stand like that. It looks wonderful!
$5 a dozen!!!! Imagine! I am so grateful for our produce. Last year, on the east side of the state, tomatoes were going for $40 a bushel. I picked two bushels up here and drove them to my daughter in law for half the price - including gas!
ReplyDeleteLove seeing the fresh produce. And everything else happening. Pies will certainly be eaten, no matter what they might look like!
ReplyDeleteI understand the impulse toward perfection as I would start over, too. That said, it is ridiculous as how those pies taste is really all that matters! Lots of good produce.
ReplyDeleteYou do have a bounty of fresh Produce, Eggs and such, probably grown Organically. Arizona used to have Roadside Stands everywhere direct from the Farmers, not now... the Mini Farms is the only place unless there's a Weekend Farmer's Market, which now, is mostly Selling stuff not from any Farm. *Le Sigh* The prices look higher than here tho', so I guess we're still relatively reasonable, but the Agricultural Land is quickly being gobbled up by Urban Sprawl.
ReplyDeleteI can't even imagine making a pie so in my eyes they are wonderful! Boy -- that's a shopping excursion. Our black cherries were $8/pint? (A lot more than last year.). Or maybe that was quart and strawberries were $5/pint. I think that's right. Amazed about the corn. But it's all so good this time of year.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful blog
ReplyDeleteNothing like fresh tomatoes. Cukes price is great! Your pies look delicious! I buy pies that look good like yours at stands when I go for veggies often. Homemade, the best! I love cherry and peach pie. My son purchased two cherry trees last year and he had some cherries this year. They are self-pollenating. I want to purchase a bushel of tomatoes to can for winter because mine are crappy this year. I just like to can them myself to have. Tallow is a good price.
ReplyDeleteI love those cherries!!! I am going to see if they're available here in Hawaii. As for the pies, you did a fantastic job. I could not have done better, believe me.
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