Urban Harvest + Fall Bread Subscription

This newsletter was first published on July 22, 2017. The seasons turn, and it's as true today as it was three years ago.

Riding down alleys and along side streets, cutting across parking lots and over sidewalks, I learn the city's bounty. All year I scout the possibilities along my bicycle lines, and come summer, I'm knocking on doors and scrambling up trees, chasing the harvest.

Most people have little interest in food preservation, and even a dwarf tree can produce more fruit than a family can eat out of hand without the season extending help of canning, drying, freezing, or pressing into cider. Perhaps they take a bowl of cherries to the office, or make a few apple pies, but most of the harvest is left to fall. As the year turns, the sidewalks and alleys are smeared with plums and bruised apples; figs split open in the sun, swarming with wasps; squirrels secret away the green nuts.

These streets hold such uncelebrated abundance. There's fruit ripe for the picking in backyards, in the last remnants of century-old orchards along the forgotten edges of housing developments, in the landscaping of parking strips, and in the thorny banks of Himalayan blackberries overrunning every open and disturbed piece of ground.

There is enough here to fill a pantry, and I do: apples pressed into cider and cooked into sauce, plums and figs dried, pears poached and tucked into jars, quince slow-roasted to jewel-toned membrillo. The task of saving a city’s worth of fruit is overwhelming and, of course, impossible, but still, each year I try, loading the back of my bicycle with boxes of sticky gleanings and staying up late into the night, saving the season.

Sophie
Owner | Baker

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FALL BREAD SUBSCRIPTION
Every Wednesday Sept 2 - Dec 16
16 weeks / 16 loaves
Pickups in Birchwood, Columbia, Lettered Streets, Happy Valley/Fairhaven

RED WHEAT Subscription ($120) - whole wheat table bread
MOUNTAIN RYE Subscription ($120) - seedy rye & wheat
TOAST Subscription ($128) - a new tinned loaf every week
9/2 - Oat & Honey
9/9 - Toasted Sesame
9/16 - Polenta
9/23 - Buckwheat & Molasses
9/30 - Wild & Seedy
Oct-Dec TBD

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TODAY AT MARKET and NEXT WEEK FOR MARKET PREORDER
10am – 2pm, 1100 Railroad Ave

BREAD:
Red Wheat ($7.50 / 720g) *tinned or hearth loaf!
Elwha River Spelt ($8 / 750g)
Mountain Rye ($7.50 / 750g)
Vollkornbrot ($8 / 750g)
Seedy Buckwheat ($8 / 420g)

SWEETS:
Gingersnap Cookies ($5 / 2)
Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies ($5 / 2)
Bittersweet Chocolate Cookies ($5 / 2)
Blackberry Apple Snack Cake ($5)
Brown Butter Shortbread ($9 / half dz)

Blackberry Apple Snack Cake, made with wheat, oats, buckwheat, and corn.

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NEXT WEDNESDAY PREORDER & PICKUP
Self-serve pickups in Birchwood, Columbia, Lettered Streets, and Fairhaven.
Address and directions with your pickup reminder email Wednesday morning.
Order by Sunday night.

Red Wheat
Mountain Rye
Toast: TOASTED SESAME
Sweets: BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE COOKIES & CHOCOLATE CHIP HAZELNUT COOKIES

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