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What’s GREAT This Week?

SWEET CORN is now PLENTIFUL with so many of our growers bringing sweet juicy cobs to the market. Versatile is the best way to describe this vegie that is tasty raw, barbecued and steamed – take your pick. Also great in salsa and while we have an abundance of tomatoes, coriander and some limes you can stock up on your salsa ingredients this week. See the corn and tomato salsa recipe below.

Don’t forget that we have our new season apples and pears so visit Andy this week and enjoy the full flavour of freshly picked fruit straight from the farm to you.

Missing from the market this week:

• Brunswick Seed Oysters will be absent until their water quality testing confirms that their oysters are safe following the extensive rain – hopefully next week.
• Nudgel Nuts as Ian is back NEXT week.

Community Support: Tweed Palliative Support is back this week with a selection of delicious chocolates and raffle tickets to so get behind this great organisation that supports our local families at a time when they need lots of help.

Recipe: Corn and Tomato Salsa

Ingredients

1. 4-6 medium tomatoes, peeled and finely chopped.
2. 1/2 medium red onion, very finely chopped.
3. ¾ cup cooked corn kernels.
4. 1 small garlic clove, crushed.
5. 1 tsp olive oil (Grumpy Grandma;s from the market)
6. 1 T balsamic vinegar. (Don’t forget we have the very delicious Byron Bay Bush Vinegars at the market)
7. Squeeze of lime juice.
8. Handful of fresh coriander, roughly chopped.
9. Salt and pepper to taste.

If you like a little heat add ½ fresh red chilli finely diced. If desired drizzle over some extra olive oil.

 Fortnightly, monthly stall changes: 

Go Earth is NOT back this week. Back next week with their bags of compost.

Seasonal updates:

• Narbey’s Best Avocados COMING SOON returns on 5^th April with Shepards avocados.
• Blueberry Fields returns in July or August weather depending.

*REMEMBER* ATM at the market!
 We now have an ATM onsite for your shopping convenience.

Entertainment: Jesse Morris

Weather: Sunny with perhaps an afternoon shower. Overnight temperatures will fall to around 20 with daytime temperatures nearing 30 degrees.

Produce of the week (newest season produce is in bold):

• Apples
• Avocados
• Bananas
• Beans
• Capsicum
• Carrots
• Corn
• Cos lettuce
• Cucumbers (Lebanese)
• Dragon Fruit
• Mangoes
• Passionfruit
• Pears
• Potatoes (various)
• Rockmelons
• Sweet potatoes
• Strawberries
• Tomatoes
• Watermelons
• Zucchini

Seasonal Produce List Updated:

Vegetables

Beans (+organic), Beetroot (+organic), Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Capsicum, Cauliflower, Chard (organic), Chilli, Cucumber (+organic), Corn (+organic), Eggplant (+organic), Garlic (+organic), Herbs (basil + organic basil, coriander, fennel, ginger, rocket, turmeric and more), Kale (+organic), Lettuce (cos organic), Fancy Lettuce and mixed salad greens, Micro greens (+ wide variety of organic such as alfalfa, barley greens, sunflower, broccoli, chick pea), Peas incl snow peas (+organic), Mizuna, Onion (+organic), Mushrooms, Pak Choi (organic), Potato (Sebago) , Potatoes (kipfler ++), Pumpkin (+organic), Salad Mix, Silver Beet, Sprouts (+organic), Spinach (+organic), Sweet Potato (+organic), Tatsoi (organic), Swedes, Tomatoes (+organic), Taro, Turnip, Watercress, Zucchini (+organic).

Fruit

Apples, Apricots, Avocados, Bananas (Cavendish, Lady Fingers (organic also), Black muscat grapes, Blueberries, Carambola (star fruit), Custard apples, Dragon Fruit, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwi fruit (organic), Lemons + Limes (incl organic), Lychees, Mangoes, Mandarin (organic), Oranges (organic), Passionfruit, Paw Paw, Pears, Plums, Rock melons, Sapotes, Strawberries, Watermelons.

 Breads – A variety of artisan sour dough breads baked with a diversity of organic flours (including spelt and rye) and many flavours that use local market products including macadamia nut bread!

Dairy – Cows milk, cheeses and yoghurt, kefir, cultured butter ++ Goats milk and soft cheeses, kefir

Eggs – including organic

Flowers – Gerberas, Lisianthus, Roses, Tropical flowers – currently sassy heliconias.

Honey – Raw unprocessed Caldera honey, creamed honey and creamed honey with cinnamon! And bees wax candles

Nuts – Pecan nuts and macadamia nuts, nut oils, butters and choc coated nuts

Mushrooms – Gourmet mushrooms – king oysters, white oysters, pink oysters, blue oysters, shiitake and Shimeji available at Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms and button mushrooms at Mountain View Eggs.

Meat – Beef, pork and goat (All Natural Meat Company produced), Salami (Nimbin Valley Diary) periodically + lamb and chicken sourced within the broader market radius and locally caught fish – very seasonal.

Rice – grown in northern NSW on the Richmond River near Woodburn

Seafood – Locally harvested oysters by Noel Baggalay from his Brunswick and Tweed Rivers oyster farm. Seasonally caught local fish, prawns and other seafood as it becomes locally available.