Blue Moon Community Farm
This week's featured farmers-market stall
Erika Janik
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Bored of aimless browsing at Madison’s popular farmers markets? In Stand By Your Stand, Decider heads out to find their best and strangest offerings, and tips on how to use them.
The source: Dunn, Wis.
Wares: Roots, roots, and more roots—and some tubers. Blue Moon Community Farm sells a full range of vegetables throughout the year, from cucumbers, spinach, and tomatoes during the summer to squash, turnips, and cabbage during the colder months. The farm is currently peddling turnips, sweet potatoes, rutabagas, beets, celeriac, and a plethora of radishes.
Best deal: Everything is $2 per pound, so great deals abound for those who like root vegetables.
Weirdest item: Bulbous celeriac, a variety of celery that produces a large, warty root that tastes like a cross between celery and parsley. Farm assistant Kiera Mulvey likens it to an “alien octopus.”
Serving suggestion: For a twist on mashed potatoes, toss in some celeriac. Or take a tip from farmer Kristen Kordet, who swears that every great root-vegetable recipe begins with fried bacon.
Find it at: Dane County Winter Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, 7:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Monona Terrace through Dec. 20 and 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Madison Senior Center through mid-April. During the summer season, find Blue Moon Community Farm's stall at the Wednesday Dane County Farmers’ Market.
Wares: Roots, roots, and more roots—and some tubers. Blue Moon Community Farm sells a full range of vegetables throughout the year, from cucumbers, spinach, and tomatoes during the summer to squash, turnips, and cabbage during the colder months. The farm is currently peddling turnips, sweet potatoes, rutabagas, beets, celeriac, and a plethora of radishes.
Best deal: Everything is $2 per pound, so great deals abound for those who like root vegetables.
Weirdest item: Bulbous celeriac, a variety of celery that produces a large, warty root that tastes like a cross between celery and parsley. Farm assistant Kiera Mulvey likens it to an “alien octopus.”
Serving suggestion: For a twist on mashed potatoes, toss in some celeriac. Or take a tip from farmer Kristen Kordet, who swears that every great root-vegetable recipe begins with fried bacon.
Find it at: Dane County Winter Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, 7:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., at Monona Terrace through Dec. 20 and 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Madison Senior Center through mid-April. During the summer season, find Blue Moon Community Farm's stall at the Wednesday Dane County Farmers’ Market.
