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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Chestnuts!! Celeriac!! Pumpkins!! Grapes!! Sunchokes!!

Locust has raspberries, grapes, heirloom tomatoes, new crop apples, and cider. Evolutionary has dragon tongue beans(cook like a romano), cherry tomatoes, squashes, and greens. Honey Hollow has porcini, hunters hearts, chanterelles, saffron cups, sweet clubs, and wild mitakes. Cayuga has dried beans, wheat berries, spelt berries, farro, freekeh(frik), and flours. Eckerton has pumpkins, squashes, potatoes, wonderful hot peppers, and heirloom tomatoes. Fantasy Fruit has blueberries. Berried Treasures has red and golden raspberries, romano beans, sunchokes, romanesco zucchini, cherry tomatoes, cabbages, haricots verts, flageolets, and cabbages.

Keith has Rocambole garlic, greens, and herbs.Sycamore has corn, beautiful eggplants, heirloom tomatoes, sweet peppers, and cucumbers. Windfall Farm has good looking zucchini blossoms, baby zucchini, and greens. Mountain Sweet Berry has Tri-Stars, Lamborn pea shoots, wild arugula, and other greens, and tiny European style potatoes. Eckerton has delicious seasoning hot peppers, chestnuts, big leafy rainbow chard, celeriac, pumpkins, and squashes.

Cherry Lane has okra, lima beans, heirloom tomatoes, tiny fairy tale eggplants, green and wax beans. Miglorelli has a wide variety of produce, including Clapp pears and seckel pears. (A greenmarket fan advised me to buy the $2 a pound pears at the back as she thinks them especially good.) Try Paffenroth's red potatoes, along with their usual wonderful array of vegetables. Madura has several types of mushroom.

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