Want to add some sunshine to your diet? Look no further than Lifefood Garden sunflower microgreens. Pleasantly crisp and nutty, a handful of sunflower microgreens adds that cool, refreshing crunch that a meal calls for as the weather warms. Because they’re on the larger side of the microgreen spectrum, they bulk up salads and sandwiches nicely while also loading you up in iron, magnesium, and a number of other nutrients. Buy a few snips worth to eat within a few days, or purchase by a tray to munch throughout the week.

Easy Eating: Use fresh sunflower microgreens any way your heart desires! Blend them into a smoothie, or sprinkle them onto pizza (like this balsamic mushroom one) or mash them into guacamole.

Sunflower Microgreen Potato Salad

Adapted from Erin McNamara, RDN

Ingredients

For the salad:

1 lb marble or fingerling potatoes (cut into bite sized pieces if using larger potatoes)
5 oz microgreens
1 green onion sliced thin

For the dressing:

4 garlic cloves minced
1 tbsp flat leaf parsley chopped
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
In a bowl, drizzle potatoes with olive oil to coat lightly and season with salt and pepper. Place on baking sheets.
Once oven is preheated, put potatoes in oven and roast for about 15 minutes. Timing may differ depending on size of potatoes. You want them to be crispy on the outside and tender in the middle.
When the potatoes are cooked, set aside to cool.
Meanwhile, mix dressing ingredients together in small bowl.
Once potatoes have cooled a bit, place in large bowl with green onion and microgreens.
Drizzle dressing over and stir to combine.
Season with additional salt and pepper if necessary.

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Current Vendors

Saturday Downtown Berkeley

Achadinha Cheese Co.

All Things Sharp

Andy's Thai

Avalos Farm

Beber Almond Milk

Bolani

Big Little Bowl

Brokaw Ranch

Bun Bao

Cafe Zambala

Coracao

Flying Disc Ranch

Four Sisters Farm

Frog Hollow Farm

Gattonelli

Good Faith Farm

Golden Rule Organics

Happy Boy Farms

Higher Land Coffee

Joodooboo Tofu

Kaki Farm

Kashiwase Farm

Laguna Garden Bakery

Lifefood Gardens

Little Fish

Massage

Mill Valley Pasta Co.

Morell's Bread

Obour Hummus

Phoenix Pastificio

Primavera Tamales

Queen of Sheeba Honey

Riverdog Farm

Smit Farms

Solano Mushroom

Stepladder Creamery

Tamales La Oaxaqueña

Three Stone Hearth

Tony's Kettle Corn + Crepes

True Grass Farm

Vang Family Farm

Your Granola Garden

Tuesday South Berkeley

All Things Sharp

(every 2nd & 4th week)

Andy's Thai

Avalos Farm

Basecamp Bakery

Brokaw Ranch

Bolani

Blossom Bluff Orchard

Crane Creek Growers

Donna's Tamales

Dirty Girl Produce

Farm Chocolate

Frog Hollow Farm

Full Belly Farm

Good Faith Farm

Kaki Farms

Kashiwase Farm

Lifefood Gardens

Little Fish Co.

Massa Organics

Massage

Oya Organics

Phoenix Pastificio

Queen of Sheeba Honey

Riverdog Farm

Roadside Rotisserie

Sea to Sky Farm

Solano Mushroom

Soul Flower Farm

Smit Farms

Stepladder Creamery

The Fruit Tree

Three Stone Hearth

Yumé Boshi

Thursday North Berkeley

All Things Sharp

Big Little Bowl

Blossom Bluff Orchards

Chay's Farm

Donna's Tamales

E&H Mushroom Farm

Farm Chocolate

Frog Hollow Farm

Golden Rule Organics

Happy Boy Farms

Little Fish

Massa Organics

Mendoza Organics

Morell's Bread

Phoenix Pastificio

Riverdog Farm

Roadside Rotisserie

Summer Solace

The Fruit Tree

Uplands Apiary

*lists subject to change

Seasonal Vendor Breaks

Billy Bob Orchards: away until August

Kashiwase Farms: return to North Berkeley TBD, likely late May

Lou Vue is back in South Berkeley

Lucero Organics: back in South Berkeley

Pomo Tierra Orchard: away from North Berkeley market until August

Vang Family Farm: returning May 6!

Learn More About the Berkeley Farmers' Markets

Farm Direct Flowers For Mother's Day

If you're shopping for flowers this Mother's Day considering buying them at the farmers' market. Flowers bought farm fresh last way longer than ones from a supermarket, which have probably already been on an airplane (and who wants that on their personal carbon footprint!) Crane Creek has flowers at all three of our markets in addition to Full Belly on Tuesdays and Four Sisters on Saturdays.

Happy Mother's Day!

East Bay Green Home Tour

Online Event

May 20, 2023; 10am–12:30pm

Wonder how they're doing it? Join the East Bay Green Home Tour to see how your neighbors are changing the spaces that surround them to adapt to a changing world. Now in its third year, this free, virtual tour will feature talks by experts and discussions with homeowners about how to make changes to combat climate change, improve air quality, generate clean energy, and move toward a safer, healthier, greener future.

Bike to Wherever Day

The Ecology Center will be hosting two energizer stations for this year's Bike to Work (or wherever) Day on Thursday, May 18. Join us at EcoHouse in the morning and the North Berkeley Farmers' Market in the afternoon/evening.

Celebrate Bike to Wherever Day with the Ecology Center

New & Returning Seasonal Vendors

It's that wonderful time of the year when seasonal vendors return from their breaks and the market brims with goodies.

We're excited to welcome Chay's Farm strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries to our North Berkeley Market, and have Lou Vue and Lucero Organics back at the South Berkeley Farmers' Market on Tuesdays.

Farmers' Market Photo Shoot: Volunteers needed

Want to help the Berkeley Farmers' Markets while doing your shopping? On Saturday, May 20, professional photographer Flavia Stoian will be at the market taking photos.

We don't want to take anyone's photo without their permission but if you'd like to be one of the faces of the farmers' market, email us or check in at the info booth Saturday morning, May 20.