Fill Your Pantry's Tomato Week Is Coming

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Thanks to the good folks at Slow Food Portland, I’ve learned that their next Fill Your Pantry PDX Summer Pop-Up is focused on one of the most beloved summer vegetables, the tomato. Tomato Week will take place at a select number of Portland-area farmers markets the week of Sunday, September 5 to Saturday, September 11.

These markets include the Lents and Montavilla markets on Sunday, September 5. The other markets include:

- - Sunday, September 5—King, Woodstock, Hillsdale
  - Monday, September 6—Come Thru Market
  - Wednesday, September 8—People’s, Shemanski, Kenton
  - Thursday, September 9—South Waterfront
  - Saturday, September 11—PSU

Buying Bulk and Sharing the Bounty

Slow Food points out, “Bulk tomatoes of different varieties will be available to purchase directly from the farmers during the Pop-Ups.” Buying bulk and processing—whether it’s by freezing, dehydrating, water-bath or pressure canning—is a fantastic way to preserve the harvest and have a taste of summer during the dark, cold days of winter.

Of course, you can share the harvest, too, either by giving away the raw product or making food for friends and loved ones. Check out some tomato recipes, here. This recipe for Burmese Tomato Salad/Khayan chin thi thoke (source: Rangoon Bistro via Cookfirst) sure sounds good.

These “fill your pantry” pop-up events are also about supporting local farms. According to Slow Food, “Every dollar spent at these summer pop-up events goes directly to the folks who grow your food, move the delicate produce from the fields to you at the markets!” Sounds good to me.

So mark your calendars and fill your pantry with tomatoes in a couple of weeks!

Fill Your Pantry PDX Summer Pop-Up
September 5 to 11
Select Portland Farmers Markets
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Fill Your Pantry PDX is a coalition of local food system non-profit organizations: Friends of Family Farmers, Slow Food Portland, Come Thru Market, Oregon Farmers Market Association, OSU Small Farms, Culinary Breeding Network, Cook First, and numerous Portland-area farmers markets.