Today’s shopper is Tracy Hepler, co-founder of YourDailyThread.com, this very cool online magazine dedicated to green, sustainable and local living. Their goal is helping people navigate the concrete jungle with a “green foot” forward. 
She’s going to make Split Pea soup, perfectly-timed for the beginning of Fall this week! It’s a recipe inspired by the one on the back of the Arrowhead Mills dried split peas package.
She starts by sauteing chopped onions in canola oil with some cumin, garlic powder and salt, for about a minute. Then she adds 2 quarts of water, split peas and soy sauce and brings it to a boil. Once it boils, she reduces the heat to medium and cooks it for an hour. At that point she adds chopped celery and carrots (and, optionally, some Black Forest Ham) and cooks it for another 1/2 hour. She serves the soup with a bit of black pepper and some parmesan cheese and hot sauce. Sounds perfect for a cool evening!
Today the Green Booth was hosting a “how-to” session: getting rid of your lawn and adding sustainable materials, native and drought tolerant plants. Christopher McKinnon and his wife, Pat, were on hand with photos from their own experience having transformed their lawn.
Apples are in season and are showing up in abundance at the market now! 
These nice mellow people from Mellow Water were on hand today, giving out samples of their new flavored water. 
And finally, did you know? The market hosts a craft booth for kids every week. Each week there’s something different. Come by and check it out! Here’s Alejandra Brandoli and her daughter helping the kids make kites.
She’s going to make Chicken Kebabs with veggies, making use of these incredibly beautiful peppers,
onions, 
eggplant 
and mushrooms.
and she’ll be there every other week. Try the cupcakes — gluten-free and dairy-free as well. Dee-lish!
and Urban Green.
and the coffee cart, fish booth,
lemonade and nachos
have all formed an open area.
and there’s also a new food booth: wood-fired pizza!
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and the biggest news is that the 
and here are John Ayers and James Brennan, of 
who were promoting the 
She’s making great use of the summer’s bounty of stone fruit, 
and is offering up her recipe for plum-almond cake. 
Doesn’t it look delicious? It is. Trust me, I had some.
Amy caters all kind of events, works as a personal chef, and also does these cool underground dinners about one every month — the next one has an Italian theme and will take place on July 11th. There are still a few spots left and you can get info about all of her services here at her website, 
There’s a chance a marijuana dispensary will open up on Venice Blvd, just west of Grand View. We call it our little downtown business area, and many of us don’t want to see that kind of a storefront there. I certainly don’t.
Best of intentions, right? Chelsea and I staked out the cherry stand and waited for someone to come by planning to make a pie. But after a while it became clear that no one would be doing that today. They’re so delish, I guess everyone’s just eating them as is. (One woman told me “BAKE” was a four-letter-word to her, which technically, it is, but I have never thought of it that way. That’s just me.)
who’s going to do quite a lot of cooking this week. She hasn’t given us recipes so much as inspiration for what to do with what we buy this week.
which she’s going to either grill and toss with feta cheese or scoop out the flesh and mix it with yogurt to make a lovely dip. And then she got some asparagus she’s going to use for risotto. (And she pronounced it just the way Gordon Ramsay does in his show, 
I think the name of this booth says it all:
