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# Local farmers spring up in the kitchen By Daily Press staff
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/local-farmers-spring-up-in-the-kitchen-by-daily-press-staff/
- Published: 2004-02-23T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:51:40.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Business, Santa Monica, #archive-import

The first cooking show to feature local farmers as growers and guests in the kitchen, City TV is offering cooking tips for seasonal recipes.

The second episode of “Fresh from the Farmers’Market” will run on Santa Monica CityTV Channel 16\. Host Amelia Saltsman, is joined by guest, Barbara Spencer, of Windrose Farm to prepare “Wintry West Coast Favorites,” including beans, greens and pork stew; date, mandarin and arugula salad; and Meyer lemon ice cream.

Each half-hour episode features a shopping segment at the local farmers’ market with advice on how to choose and store produce. Saltsman and the guest farmer then prepare three seasonal recipes from ingredients available at local farmers’ markets and discuss farming life and cooking tips.

“Fresh from the Farmers’ Market” is a collaboration of the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market and CityTV, and is made possible by the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market, the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s “Buy California” campaign through the Southland Farmers’ Market Association to promote California specialty crops in Los Angeles County-certified farmers’ markets.

The Southland Farmers’ Market Association is a grower-funded, non-profit organization that supports farmers and farmers’ markets on a state level and was one of 50 recipients of “Buy California” grant funds distributed by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

Saltsman is a Santa Monica-based food writer, cooking teacher and longtime farmers’ market shopper who has given numerous cooking demonstrations that showcase seasonal market produce at the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers’ Market.

Guest farmers are selected from the 200 California-certified growers who attend one of Santa Monica’s four certified farmers’ markets.

Air dates for the show’s second episode are as follows: Santa Monica CityTV Cable Channel 16: Feb. 23 at 4:30 p.m.; Feb. 24 at 4 p.m.; 27 at 6:30 p.m.; March 1 at 7:30 p.m.; March 4 at 8:30 a.m.; March 7 at 6:30 p.m.; March 10 at 10 a.m.; March 13 at 10:30 a.m.

For Los Angeles Cable Channel 36 listings, visit www.la36.org. For more information on the show’s recipes, call (310) 458-8712 ext. 2 or visit www.farmersmarket.santa-monica.org.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 23, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022304.pdf?ref=smdp.com)