Today's Farmstand Scene

Lots of activity today at my favorite farmstand location, 75th and Valmont. It looks to be flower gathering day at Cure Organic Farm, with lots of people bent over, harvesting blooms in the flower garden. I do wish I had a picture of such a pastoral scene. There should be an artist out there, painting the beat up pickup truck with its tail down and bed filled with buckets of flowers, just gorgeous. Since it's Wednesday, the farm store is open today instead of the self-serve table. Inside, I found all sorts of beautiful organic produce of their own, plus organic peaches from Palisade. Veggies included yellow (aka wax) beans, those long squiggly cucumbers, chard, beets, carrots, and more. I opted for the chioggia beets, with their super-fresh greens that will get cooked as a separate dish. Also on offer were eggs from the farm, yarn, handmade soaps, and some pottery pieces as well.

After such a placid, pastoral experience at Cure, it was a bit of a jar to cross the street to Munson's and have to wait for a semi tractor trailer to back out of the parking lot before I could get in. Rationally, the dissonance makes no sense, since the semi was from Palisade, and those peaches have to get here somehow, right? And the organic peaches I'd just seen in a bucolic display across the street had to get here from Palisade too. Furthermore, we're doing better buying peaches from the Western Slope, rather than those that have been trucked all the way from California, right again? But still, it was more enjoyable contemplating the flowers in the beat up pickup than the tractor trailer backing out. Regardless, it's a great time to enjoy Munson's fabulous corn, and I picked up a bunch of ears for tonight's tagliatelle with fresh corn pesto.