This week at the Market: Alcoba Coffee Beans...and Honey!

We're happy to welcome Jose Castillo of Alboca Coffee to Cheverly Community Market again this Saturday. Jose locally roasts beautiful Guatemalan coffee beans in three roasts: Dark, Light, and Mixed, and they're available either whole or ground. The crown jewel of South American coffee production, Guatamalen coffee beans are widely known for a wide variety and many interesting characteristics. Read all about Guatemalan coffee growing here. And visit us on Pinterest for coffee-based recipes and latte art tips & techniques (or this site for a terrific rundown of brewing techniques), as well as recipes and more that will help you get the most out of your Market purchases.

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This week, Mr. Castillo has a special treat in store for us: locally harvested honey. This is honey that comes from the hives in the Castillo's own backyard -- a real early autumn treat! Make sure to stop by and pick up a 1lb. jar -- this is the only week that honey will be offered at Alcoba Coffee!

This Week at the Market: Brick House Bees

We are excited to have Brick House Bees back with us this Saturday...we bought honey when they first came to the Market last month, and we've run out! Our little bear has been seen visiting our oatmeal bowls, our greek yogurt, homemade chai, cappuccinos, salad dressings, peanut butter and banana sandwiches...he really got around! Replenish your honey supply this Saturday at Cheverly Community Market!

This week at the Market: Two Oceans Seafood

Two Oceans Seafood will bring the usual suspects -- and by "usual suspects" we mean amazing, sustainably harvested seafood and fresh chicken -- plus unpasteurized honey, olive oils and vinegars to Cheverly Community Market this Saturday. If the chickens cooperate, they may also have a few eggs, but so far the hens are more interested in eating than in laying so the egg supply is very tight. That's real farming, folks. There's only so much about chickens that you can control.

This season, Two Oceans has expanded their Market offerings -- varietal extra virgin olive oils from mild to robust; olive oils infused with herbs, fruits, or even mushrooms; and specialty oils (including walnut, roasted sesame, roasted almond, and white truffle); and an amazing range of infused vinegars (mission fig dark balsamic, cranberry pear white balsamic, serrano honey vinegar or pinot noir wine vinegar, as well as a board selection of other flavors) are great choices to boost your standard autmun dishes into something truly memorable...and they make great gifts, too!

This Week at the Market: Two Oceans Seafood

Gaylord Clark of Two Oceans Seafood is quite an interesting  guy. In addition to being a farmer on a 82-acre farm north of Baltimore, Gaylord also specializes in sustainably fished and farmed species. He has decades of experience and extensive knowledge of fish handling and fisheries management in the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Chesapeake Bay. In the 1980s, Gaylord worked on the very first frozen-at-sea vessel to work the Atlantic waters. He maintains his own boat, the Jack of Hearts, for fishing wild salmon in Alaska during the summers.

Based in Stevenson, Maryland, the Clark family takes great pride in offering seafood sourced from strictly managed commercial fisheries, many of which have earned Marine Stewardship Council certifications for sustainability. Their recent re-association with the commercial fisheries of the East Coast has provided opportunities to draw from local fisheries whose management systems and stocks allow for sustainable harvests. Two Oceans offers seasonally available wild seafood as well as some aquaculture-based seafood which meets their high standards for product quality and environmental stewardship.

Gaylord will have a wide variety of fish at the Market this Saturday, such as Sockeye salmon fillets, Coho salmon portions, Keta salmon portions, Mahi-Mahi portions, smoked salmon, and Halibut portions. From the farm, they'll have fresh eggs, plus poultry and honey! Yum!

This Week at the Market: Brick House Bees

Did you visit Brick House Bees at our last Market? We've been enjoying their delicious local honey on the first cappuccinos of the season, over greek yogurt, in vinaigrettes, and on peanut butter-apple sandwiches all week...so good! Pick some up this weekend and add a sweet noter to your roasted butternut squash, cookies, oatmeal and more!

New Vendor: Brick House Bees

Over the past few years, we've had many requests for local honey. We are thrilled to finally be able to bring you a brand new vendor this week, Brick House Bees, from Lanham, Maryland.

Brick House Bees is a suburban apiary that offers unprocessed local honey, straight from the bees to you. What started as a desire to have a couple of hives has resulted in more honey than David Etherton and his family can use, so he's very kindly offering it in Cheverly.

Make sure to welcome David to Cheverly Community Market this weekend -- and pick up some honey for your toast, your tea, your baking...it's a great addition! And read up on the health benefits of honey here.

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