Independence Day may be this Friday, but there's no reason why you can't celebrate great local food all weekend long! We are so fortunate to have such an amazing array of locally-grown and produced things to eat available at the Hollywood Farmers Market!

This week Dancing Light Ranch will return to market, with their lovely and fragrant lavender. We'll also be joined by on-call vendors Ancient Heritage, Olympic Provisions, & Reverent Nat's Hard Cider. Thompson Farms is taking the week off, but will return next Saturday.

Last week, we had the pleasure of taking a trip out to visit Suzanne Brillat at THINK Unique Gardens. Suzanne has so much passion and knowledge about her plants and farm, and it was a real treat to take a tour of her beautiful property, tucked into the forested foothills outside Estacada, OR. Thankfully we had our intrepid duo of volunteers, Lianne and Rollin Bannow, come along and put together this wonderful video profile of THINK Unique, so you can all see what Suzanne and her farm are like. Lianne and Rollin have been putting together these video profiles of our vendors for a couple years now; you can see all of their work on our website here.

Unfortunately, our Pesto Festo contest last Saturday had to be canceled, but check below for some tips on how to make and freeze pesto for the winter. And remember, although a good basil pesto is delectable, you can make pesto with almost anything green replacing the basil - cilantro, arugula, sage, parsley, even snap peas! Same goes for the pine nuts - walnuts and hazelnuts are tasty Oregon-grown alternatives.