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Chef Shout-Outs
Andrée Falls
Meet the chef: Andrée FallsAmerican culinary expert James Beard is quoted as saying, “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” Sage Bakehouse owner/baker Andrée Falls agrees. She offers 14...
Nathan Mayes
Meet the chef: Nathan MayesPaloma Owner Marja Martin feels that she hosts a dinner party every night at her intimate Santa Fe restaurant on South Guadalupe Street. “I enjoy having people come into my space, and to have them greeted warmly,” She said, adding that Chef...
Paulraj Karuppasamy
Meet the chef: Paulraj KaruppasamyChef Paulraj Karuppasamy and his wife and business partner, Nellie Tischler, own and operate Paper Dosa, a restaurant specializing in South Indian Cuisine. Located at 551 West Cordova Road, the menu offers dishes with lamb and chicken...
Recipes
Braised lamb shanks with turnips, greens, and lemon
It’s a great time at the market for winter greens and root vegetables, especially hakurei turnips – those beautiful, small white Japanese turnips – and baby red beets. At a recent market, I bought a bunch of each from El Guique Farm and went home and pulled a...
TOMATO TARTINE
Ingredients 1 loaf Sage Bakehouse Kalamate Olive bread, sliced 2 Tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil 1 Local Heirloom Tomato, sliced 2 oz. Mozzarella Curd Coarse Sea Salt and Coarse Black Pepper PREPARATION Put the slice of bread under the broiler and toast it until...
Ribollita, also known as bean, vegetable, and bread stew
Many varieties of dried beans are available at our farmers’ market throughout the year. I keep a supply in my pantry, supplemented by beans I purchase from Rancho Gordo, a Santa Rosa business that’s a great source of heirloom beans. Beans are inexpensive, nutritious,...
Farmer Spotlights
A Gracious Good Afternoon: A Conversation with Susan Feavearyear, Founder of Artemisia Herbs
Kate and Susan Feavearyear. Photo credit Sara Digby, Courtesy of Artemisia HerbsSusan began selling at Santa Fe Farmers’ Markets in 1995 and was joined by her mother, Kate, twenty years ago. Today she is assisted by her granddaughter Chiara, along with Sara Digby who...
A Burst of Color: Kimberly and Steven Martin’s Luscious Tomatoes
During the grey and dreary days of February, clamoring for color is a natural tendency. There is no more beautiful, delicious treat than the jewel-toned heirloom tomatoes from Kimberly and Steven Martin’s Growing Opportunities, Inc. farm in Alcalde, NM. Kim and Steve...
Seeding The Future with Plant Starts
Nothing points to the arrival of spring more than the appearance of plant seedlings at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market. Whether you refer to them as starts, seedlings, or baby plants, they are in abundance at the Saturday Railyard Market this month. Ric Gaudet of One...
Articles
Chicken or Egg?
Mary Dixon of Green Tractor Farm Reads to Children at the Santa Fe Public Library's Southside Branch with the Assistance of her grandson Major, who was visiting from New York City. Photo: Janice MayerThis year, the chicken or egg paradox is on everyone’s lips. Parents...
Energy Rising to a Higher Level: Visiting with Khalsa Family Farms, Inc.
Khalsa Farm. Photos: Flora Gutierrez and Lisa Kantor PhotographyJanuary is National Mentoring Month. However, for one of our Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Farms, mentoring is a year-round activity. Sirivishnu Singh Khalsa, President of Khalsa Family Farms, Inc. shared his...
Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute hosts Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández in Roundtable
Photo caption starting from the top left. Mabel Meets the Congresswoman; 2022 Farmer All Star Annie Krahl of Annie's Herbs offers the Farmers' perspective on processing WIC and DUFB transactions with Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández; 2021 Farmer All Star Marie...
