Lori Gulley’s Fresh Avocado and Corn Salsa can be prepared two hours in advance.Lori Gulley still had a number of tomatoes left as the clock neared 6 p.m. — closing time — at the Ooltewah Farmers Market last week.
No matter, she says. She’ll take the tomatoes and turn them into sauce. She might also turn some of them into salsa.
The Gulley Family Farm stand at the farmers market at Ooltewah Nursery & Landscape Co. offered a recipe card for Fresh Corn Salsa on this afternoon — the market is open each Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. — and many of the ingredients could be purchased among the sellers there.
Corn, peppers and tomatoes were available. Cilantro and scallions might have been on other days.
That’s the hope of Gaining Ground, a program of the Benwood Foundation that works to promote the local food movement in the Chattanooga area.