Saturday, September 14, 2019
Goldsmith's Orchard Market
Not finding everything we wanted at the Farmers Market, we stopped at Goldsmith's, a wonderful farm store just west of Thornbury. A bit expensive in our opinion, but it has a wonderful variety of fresh fruit and veggies (as well as baking, meats and cheese, etc.), especially at this time of year. If you want to buy local produce and support local farmers you don't mind paying a bit extra.
Goldsmith's started as a store for selling apples from their own orchard, as the name implies. They had three very new varieties of early season apples available - Rave, ZStar, and Sunrise. Long gone are the days of just having Duchess, Macs and Delicious! We bought some ZStar this time, and they're very good - an apple a day you know ……..
Always glad to get a basket of Niagara peaches, not strictly 'local', but peach trees won't survive here with our occasional winter weeks at -30°C. And Niagara is still in Ontario at least.
Lots of tomatoes, both the large ones for sandwiches, and multiple colours of small ones.
And I was very glad to see they still had fresh blueberries. Other berries are all over here, so blueberries are the last berries I'll get until next summer.
And lots of what we came for - sweet corn. Goldsmith's has their own farm in the Beaver Valley where they grow as much as they can locally, including the tomatoes, apples and sweet corn. Other things they bring in from other Ontario sources. We'll be back in the fall for squash and pumpkins.
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Oh, that tomatoes look so good. Makes my mouth water! Of course the corn locally is over here. But there is still some at the chain groceries. Great to see you still getting out and about.
ReplyDeleteThat all looks very tasty! I'm fortunate in having a farm shop nearby that sells lots of local produce.
ReplyDeleteGood looking veggies and fruit -- we usually get our produce from a local farm stand that sells locally grown products.
ReplyDeleteThe blueberries are particularly tempting!
ReplyDeletePeaches and Blueberries, Yummy beyond anything else, there is a farm about 2 hours from us, pick your own, so next summer that will be a MUST to visit,Those tomatoes, what a super lot of varieties.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite apples are the honey crisp. Had one this afternoon sitting on the front porch.
ReplyDeleteyum! gotta love fresh fruit, we always have some cherry tomatoes in our fridge.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful place to have nearby. I love this time of year, harvests in and the pumpkins growing on the vine. :-)
ReplyDeleteI like all of it. We buy blueberries regularly and my wife made a peach pie on Saturday. Peaches are touchy about where they grow.
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