What a day. Once again my admiration for farmers and all those who produce, process and deliver our delicious local food knows no bounds.
Before six I was on the road to Arthur to meet Brad, a former Paisley market gardener who now chooses and delivers produce for a dozen or more Good Food Box programs. He'd been at the food terminal at 3 a.m., finding us Ontario produce on one of the most expensive weeks of the food year.
He found us cucumbers, peppers, Yukon gold potatoes, Campari tomatoes, Boston lettuce and more of those yummy Ontario sweet potatoes - but only as many as would fit in my Corolla, so come early.
Then I picked up that delicious goat chevre and yogurt from Katie at River's Edge dairy, somewhere between milking and getting her kids (that's children) to the school bus.
From there to Mount Forest for some hot cross buns (they likely won't even last until the doors open Thursday!) at the Village Bakery which is closing its doors on Saturday for good. The bakers want to sleep in for a few years, and they deserve it.
On to Ayton to get organic apple cider vinegar from Filsinger's, stopping to admire one of the prettiest orchards I've seen in early morning winter sunshine.
Next I visited Johannes's dairy farm, and picked up that famous Saugeen Country yogurt that was served to President Obama in Ottawa. That's where I got stuck in the snow, but an ever-resourceful farmhand was able to pull me out with the tractor. (The Corolla we're talking about, he likely could have got just me out without the tractor.)
One last stop at the Williamsford Pie Company where Laura had been up since pre-dawn to start all the Easter baking, but she hadn't forgotten our cranberry ginger oat squares.
We had one of her roasted veggie pizzas with the thin whole wheat crusts for dinner ....mmmm. Put one in your freezer if you're having extra kids for the weekend.
Two of my favourite women farmers arrived from Forsyth Farms and Over the Moon with lamb and grass-fed beef, so noone needs to go hungry at your house.
Ask for your favourite meats now in enviromentally friendly freezer wrap and skip the plastic.
Don't forget to buy your tickets for the Nylons/Elizabeth May event on May 16th. They'd make a great thank you gift if someone else is cooking the holiday dinner.
Around the Sound will be closed Good Friday, so stock up Thursday, 10 until 7, or early on Saturday. We'll be open until 4. Fresh bread is almost always in by 10:30 each day.
972 1st Avenue West
519-416-3662
aroundthesoundfood.com

See you there
Anne