Dan’s Papers April 8, 2011 danshamptons.com Page 28
By Stacy Dermont The pursuit of local, organic foods has become one of the East End’s most popular patimes. With the success of the first indoor, winter market at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, other year-round markets are expected to crop up this year. Local dirt is flying as our farmers prep to offer us the best produce and wine money can buy, all season long. In fact, the season has begun with spring spinach—you may have seen the sign on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in front of the Under the Willow farm stand. Dale Haubrich and Bette Lacina just
returned from their winter farm in Tucson, Arizona on Sunday. They brought with them about 1,000 seedlings—leeks, onions, peppers, eggplant, tomatoes—and plan to grow over 100 crops in all. Included among them kiwi berries and gooseberries! Yum. Hats off to Jeff Negron who kept the Bridgehampton hoop houses and hens working all winter. Last year was a terrible year for garlic. A nemotode took out much of the organic seed garlic. Jon Wagner and Karen Bellemare at Sunset Beach Farm in North Haven are raising a big crop of garlic this year and, for the first time, they will also be raising horseradish. This farming couple told me that they
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were inspired by their winter stay in Australia—where small towns take turns holding huge farmers markets on different days of the week. They also enjoyed an artisans market that they visited. They’d be happy to tell you all about it. You can visit with them at the Westhampton Farmers Market (re-opening May 7). They have a few spots left in their Community Supported Agriculture (C.S.A.) program, sign up and you can visit with them every week. They grow a wide range of produce and the Sunset Beach chicken flock is up to 60 Araucanas, Australorps, Bantams, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Cochins, Orphingtons, Rhode Island Reds and Leghorns. Chicken eggs are a new offering from the Mecox Bay Dairy in Bridgehampton. But you have to get to the farmers markets early to get ‘em—they sell out fast. Mecox Bay Dairy is set to release another delicious cheese this summer—a blue cheddar. ‘Can’t wait! AND their cow barn is goin’ solar. The East End’s newest market is a tie between Shelter Island and Amagansett. Shelter Island’s is holding an organizational meeting on April 22 to make everything ready for their debut at the Shelter Island Historical Society grounds on June 25. In Amagansett they’re gearing up to open in June at the American Legion grounds. Last week Sagaponack’s Wolffer Estate Vineyard released the 2010 vintage of their most popular wines—Rose Table Wine and Classic White Table Wine. Even better news —their prices are down a bit from last year because they produced more of this vintage. The “farmers market priceâ€? is just $17 for the rose and $16 for the white. Available at the Sag Harbor Indoor Farmers Market on Saturdays, get them before the outdoor markets open—these wines sell out before the summer is over! I sampled the rose last Saturday morning and found it to be a fine “breakfast wine,â€? clean and light. The Halseys have closed the Milk Pail store on Montauk Highway, but it will reopen on May 5. Summer hours there will be Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Open Minded Organics in Bridgehampton is growing a lotta mushrooms indoors right now—for your upcoming outdoor barbeques‌ Seek out local asparagus and rhubarb, it’s so worth it!