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Published June 01, 2009 09:44 am - Farmer's Market open for the season By DUANE NOLLEN The Oskaloosa Herald OSKALOOSA — If you’re looking for produce that’s grown locally and a fair price, the Oskaloosa Farmer’s Market is open for the season.
The Mahaska Ruritan Club has sponsored the Farmer’s Market since 1978. The market had a rainy 2009 debut Tuesday, but it was a sunny day Saturday for the market that was set up on High Avenue next to the Hy-Vee parking lot. “We’ve changed a little bit,” said Larry Linsley of the Ruritan Club. “We got permission to block off this street until noon.” Eleven vendors set up shop at the Farmer’s Market. Two of those vendors had decided to switch from the Des Moines Farmer’s Market to Oskaloosa, Linsley said. The vendors had a variety of wares on sale Saturday such as fresh vegetables, jellies, flowers, plants and baked goods. The purpose of the Farmer’s Market is to “raise it locally, sell it locally and hopefully people will buy it locally,” Linsley said. The vendors had traditional vegetables such as onions, broccoli and radishes, but they also had some more exotic items such as kohlrabi, a green vegetable. “It’s a cross between a turnip and cabbage,” said Doug Veldhuizen, of Leighton. “You can eat it raw.” “There’s a lot of different ways people have had it,” he said. You can use kohlrabi in stir fry, he added. Although it’s relatively unknown, it is a popular item. Several vendors had the vegetable for sale Saturday. “It’s one of the better-selling items,” Veldhuizen said. “Many have not heard of it, but enough people like it.” Veldhuizen said he planted the kohlrabi plants he had on sale during the first part of April. Veldhuizen cut some kohlrabi for people to sample. Some of the people who tried kohlrabi were Hope Weimmeister and her daughters Micayla and Madison, all of Oskaloosa. “It’s delicious,” Weimmeister said of the kohlrabi. “It almost tastes like cucumber.” Weimmeister comes to the Farmer’s Market often. 
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