Sara Wilson and Kathy Johnson, whose families fish at Kodiak Island, will be back at the Coppell Farmers Market Saturday with Alaskan Coho salmon. They will have smoked Sockeye next Saturday. They expect their supply to last three or four...
The farmers and purveyors at Coppell Farmers Market will be making special treats for Thanksgiving and holiday shopping: Great Harvest Breads will add pumpkin swirl bread to its offerings. Dawn Holden (Wizard of Ahhhs) is making pumpkin custard, walnut-carrot cake...
Used to be, Dominion Farms was the only local producer raising pork, and it was available from the farm or a retailer like Roy's Natural Market. Now Dominion is selling at three farmers markets: Coppell, McKinney and Frisco (and Rebohoth...
Kathy Johnson is taking a hiatus from salmon sales until September, so no salmon at Coppell till then. Captain George is still selling his Gulf seafood. New at Coppell: Great Harvest Bread from Flower Mound and lots of blueberries. Get...
Coppell Farmers Market chairperson Marilyn Horton sends along her city's preview, which applies to most farmers markets in the area. The first of the season's local corn and cantaloupe are starting. Farmers will also have early peaches (cling), blackberries, onions,...
This report comes from Marilyn Horton at the Coppell Farmers Market, but let's just say you can apply the principles to most area farmers markets this weekend. The big news: The silver lining in these unseasonably high temperatures is a...
Good weather expected for this Saturday's market. Marilyn Horton, who heads up the market this year, reports that lettuce and spinach are over, but there will still be greens, including chard, collards and kale. The season's earliest peaches may be...
Saturday is Customer Appreciation Day at the Coppell Farmers Market, held in conjunction with the Old Town Coppell Festival, a small-town shindig, fun for a family outing. The "appreciation" is in the form of a free raffle for prizes provided...
Robert Hutchins of Rehoboth Ranch reminds me that the same organic supplier who's sending the fabulous locally grown organic lettuces I wrote about here also is sending his fresh fruits and vegetables to the McKinney Farmers Market on Saturdays now,...
Now I know how Buttercrunch and red romaine lettuce taste. You may think you know what red romaine is - that wimpy romaine in stores with slightly purplish end leaves. Oh, no. Organic red romaine, grown in Grand Saline, is...
This comes from Robert Hutchins, whose Rehoboth Ranch produces pastured meats, chicken and eggs in the Greenville area. He says that Gene Holmes, whose Grand Saline farm supplies organic produce to the Coppell and Dallas farmers markets on Saturdays, is...
You might say this marks the official opening of the community farmers market season. The Coppell Farmers Market gets under way 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. It's still early in the growing season, so no peaches or field tomatoes. (They're...
It's true, Bill, that relatively few Dallas chefs do what the chefs in California have been doing for something like 20, 25 years. We all know Sharon Hage (York Street) is the High Priestess of locally grown, with her flavor-driven,...
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