NEW FARMERS MARKET SET FOR OPENING.Byline: Daily News Twenty-eight California farmers will sell their produce, herbs and flowers at Sunday's grand opening of the newest farmers market in the Valley. Scarborough Farms is selling 10 heirloom varieties of tomatoes, squash blossoms, mesclun mes·clun n. A mixture of young leafy greens, often including young lettuces, used as salad. [Provençal mesclom, mesclumo, mixture, from Vulgar Latin and baby lettuce. Sproutime is offering organic sprouts sprout v. sprout·ed, sprout·ing, sprouts v.intr. 1. To begin to grow; give off shoots or buds. 2. To emerge and develop rapidly. v.tr. , hummus hum·mus also hum·us or hom·mos n. A smooth thick mixture of mashed chickpeas, tahini, oil, lemon juice, and garlic, used especially as a dip for pita. and pasta. BasilTops has hydroponically grown sweet basil. The Studio City market, on Ventura Place, will start out selling produce, flowers and baked goods, said Polly Polly Biotechnology A Poll Dorset sheep cloned from sheep skin cells, which has a human gene in each cell. See Dolly. Ward of the Studio City Residents Association. ``We may expand in the future,'' Ward said. ``We have three times as many applications for space right now as we can accept.'' The farmers market will present a number of specialty products like the new and freshest tomatoes, picked the night before, Ward said. There will be huge artichokes and tiny versions of other vegetables. ``The market itself is just fun,'' Ward said. ``It takes you back to being a kid, and you went to the farmer's roadside stand and bought ears of corn. It's that feeling of being connected with nature.'' The market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon every Sunday, rain or shine. It is on Ventura Place between Ventura and Laurel Canyon boulevards Laurel Canyon Boulevard is a major street in the city of Los Angeles, California. It starts off at Polk Street in Sylmar in the northern San Fernando Valley near the junction of the San Diego (Interstate 405) and the Golden State Freeways (Interstate 5). . |
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