Midgley’s spring greens move quickly at Downtown Farmers’ Market

Published by Professor Les June 20th, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Current Events, Business News, Cuisine. Tags: chad midgley, downtown farmers market in salt lake city, home grown produce in utah, local produce in salt lake city, Salt Lake City.

Chad Midgley, the gentleman farmer from Bountiful, is once again off to a fast start at the Downtown Farmers’ Market. At last weekend’s opening, he sold out of more than 400 bags of spring salad greens by 11 a.m., the earliest such occurrence in his 10 years at the market.

As mentioned before on this blog, Midgley is an excellent first-hand example of how the principles and concerns so solidly articulated in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma can be successfully realized. For more Selective Echo articles about Midgley, read here, here, here and here.

The market, as I noted in a Twitter post last weekend, brought record-breaking crowds on the opening Saturday of the 16th season. Now that the normal summer weather pattern has kicked in, growers are expecting to catch up quickly within the next couple of weeks on harvesting crops that were a bit slow because of the extended cool, wet spring.

Midgley — who uses two greenhouses, “every square inch” of his and his neighbor’s land, and gardens in west Bountiful — will have 500 bags of greens, 42 bags of basil, 34 bags of cilantro, Easter egg radishes, turnips, and some greenhouse cucumbers and squash. As the summer growing season continues, Midgley’s offerings — like those of the 70 other growers at the market — will diversify into an extraordinary range of produce. His well-known heirloom tomatoes will be in full force by August.

Editor’s Note: Photos courtesy of John Erickson.

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