It's almost the Winter market, with many of our stands off for the season, but there are plenty of good things here!

Who's in today (To see: Stands and Produce)

3-Corner Field

Grassfed Sheep's Milk Cheeses, Knitting Wool & Grassfed Lamb

5th Floor Farm Kitchen

Baked Goods

Andrew's Local Honey

Raw Honey Varieties, NYC Rooftop Honey & Bee Products

Anthony Road Wine Co.

Wine

Berkshire Berries

Raw Honey, NYC Rooftop Honey, Maple Syrup & Jams

Beth's Farm Kitchen

Pickled Goods, Jams & Chutneys

Body & Soul

Vegan Baked Goods. Gluten-free options

Breezy Hill Orchard

Orchard Fruit, Hard Cider & Baked Goods

Bulich Mushroom Co.

Cultivated Mushrooms

Caradonna Farms

Vegetables & Orchard Fruits

Cato Corner Farm

Cow's Milk Cheeses

Catskill Merino

Wool & Livestock (lamb)

Cayuga Pure Organics

Beans, Grains & Flours, Baked Goods, Cooking/Salad Oil (sunflower)

Chateau Renaissance

Wine & Sparkling Wine from the Finger Lakes

D'Attolico's Organic

Veggies, Fruit

Fantastic Gardens

Potted Plants & Herbs

Flying Pigs Farm

Pasture-raised Pork products, Chickens & Eggs

Grazin' Angus Acres

Grassfed beef, chicken & eggs, milk, yogurt

Greener Pastures

Wheatgrass Plants & Juice, Micro green Shoots

Hawthorne Valley

Cow Dairy Products, Livestock Meats, Ferments, & Baked Goods

Hoeffner Farms

Potted Plants & Vegetables

Hudson Valley Duck

Whole, Parts & Cured Products

Hudson Valley Organic Gardens

Sprouts, Micro Greens

Knoll Krest Farm

Eggs & Fresh Pasta

Locust Grove Farms

Orchard Fruit & Vegetables

Lynnhaven Goat Farm

Meat, Cheese & Yogurt

Martin's Pretzels

Hand-rolled Hard Pretzels

Migliorelli Farm

Vegetables, Orchard Fruit & Value Added Products

Mountain Sweet Berry

Vegetables

Nemeth Orchards

Baked Goods, Orchard Fruit

Nordic Breads

Finnish Ruis Bread

Northshire Farm

Veggies, Eggs (Chicken & Quail)

Quattro's Game Farm

Eggs, Livestock/Poultry (duck, chicken, venison)

River Garden

Dried Flower Wreaths & Arrangements

Rock Hill Bakehouse

Baked Goods

Ronnybrook Farms

Cow's Milk & Cow Dairy Products

Rose Meadow Farm

Cut Flowers

S & SO Produce Farms

Vegetables & Black Dirt Pickles and Sauces

Shushan Hydroponic

Tomatoes, Herbs & Vegetables

Terhune Orchards

Orchard Fruit & Baked Goods

Tonjes Family Dairy

Dairy (cow)

Valley Shepherd

Pasture-raised Cow & Sheep's Milk Cheese Products

Violet Hill Farm

Pork, lamb & eggs

Windfall Farms

Micro Greens & Vegetables

Wood Homestead

Maple Syrup, Eggs

Who's out today

Ardith Mae

Goat Cheese

Berried Treasures

Vegetables, Berries & Herbs

Borghese Vineyard

Wine

Deep Mountain Maple

Vermont Maple Syrup and Maple Syrup Products

Eckerton Hill Farm

Heirloom Tomatoes

Elk Trails Bison Farm

Grassfed bison & beef

Eve's Cidery

Sparkling Ciders and Wines

Fiori Di Fenice

Fresh Flowers, Plants

James Durr Flowers

Plants, Flowers, Berries

Kingferry Vineyards

Treleaven Wines from the Finger Lakes

Lani's Farm

Veggies

Norwich Meadows Farm

Vegetables, Eggs & Halal Chicken

Oak Grove Plantation

Vegetables, Orchard Fruits, Livestock Meats, & Flours

Our Daily Bread

Breads & Baked Goods. Gluten-free Options

PE & DD Seafood

Fresh fish & Shellfish

Paffenroth Gardens

Veggies

Phillips Farm

Winter Veggies/Greens, Jams & Preserves, Fruit

Rick's Picks

Pickled goods

Salento Farm

Preserves & Pickles

Seatuck Fish Co.

Seafood

Tremblay Apiaries

Raw Honey Varieties, Beeswax Candles & Bee Products

VanHouten Farms

Potted Plants & Herbs

Happy Holidays!!

Jingle, Jingle!

Bulletin for Monday!

Monday is the last day for Lani for the season!! They will have beautiful greens and sweet potatoes along with other goodies for your Christmas celebrations, and then will be gone until Spring!

Last day for Stokes! Get your cut herbs today! They'll be back next summer!

Stokes has beautiful small potatoes, herb bunches for poultry, herb wreaths, pumpkins, and lovely hydroponic salads.  Oak Grove has fresh brussels sprouts, dried hot pepper bunches, pork cuts, beef cuts, and herb plants, as well as baked goods.

Stokes Beets

Several stands have Christmas greenery, including Mountain Sweet Berry, Truman, and Van Houten.  Rose Meadow has fresh flowers and River Garden has dried flower arrangements.

Seatuck Fish

Breezy Hill has hard ciders, apples, pastries.  Beth's Farm Kitchen has beautifully wrapped jams and chutneys for gifts.  Deep Mountain has several kinds of flavored maple syrups and other stands have good gift options as well.

Bulich Mushrooms

Quattro's has venison, capons, turkeys, pheasants, smoked poultry and other goodies. Flying Pig has house-made salamis, sausages, and bacon as well as pork cuts.  Violet Hill has chickens, pork and lamb.

Andrew's Honey

To see these and other stands and produce:
Saturday, December 21

Who's NOT here today:

Who's out today

Berried Treasures

Vegetables, Berries & Herbs

Borghese Vineyard

Wine

Cherry Lane Farms

Vegetables & Berries

Eckerton Hill Farm

Heirloom Tomatoes

Phillips Farm

Winter Veggies/Greens, Jams & Preserves, Fruit

Red Jacket Orchards

Fruit & Juices

Tweefontein Herb Farm

Herbal Tinctures, Salves (etc), and Pesto

Wednesday December 25 and January 1, there will be no market. However, Beth, Tamarack, and Windfall will be here on Monday, December 23rd along with the Monday regulars.

S&SO is here with root vegetables. Paffenroth, Rogowsky, Madura, Keith,and Tamarack have some green vegetables, including kales, and Two Guys and Shushan have hydroponic greens. Shushan also has hydroponic cherry and other tomatoes and herbs.

Paffenroth and Mountain Sweet Berry have great potatoes, and Mountain Sweet Berry, Van Houten, Truman, and others have Christmas greenery.  River Garden is here with dried flower arrangements. 

Breezy Hill, Terhune, Caradonna, and Locust Grove have apples and ciders, and Breezy Hill has hard cider and cranberries.  Rogowsky also has cranberries.

Beth has ketchup, hot sauces, and other goodies in addition to jams and chutneys and Three Corner Field Farm is hear with sheeps milk yogurts and cheeses as well as lamb cuts, soaps, and wools.

To see these and other stands and produce: Wednesday Greenmarket

WHAT???? ARE THEY KIDDING???? NO HEATERS???

Whether the ruling came from the Fire Department or the Parks Department, it makes no sense to tell the farmers the day before a snowstorm that they can't have heaters at their stands.  It's not clear whose idea this was, but the result is that you won't be able to buy your leafy vegetables from many of your favorite farmers because they won't be here!  Many stands come from places it's difficult to travel from, so it isn't surprising that they aren't here today,  but others are not here simply because this ruling results in the destruction of their produce.

Considering the humane roots of the farmers' markets and the intention to support local production, it is amazing to me that this has happened. Perhaps the people in charge are unaware of the history of the market and the fact that the Union Square Greenmarket essentially *made* the area the thriving business area it is today by attracting so many people.

Anyhow, it seems crazy to me that after 25 or so years of fire-free heating during the winter markets a ruling should be handed down with no time for planning.
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Meanwhile, several stands *are* here and you can find poultry, pork, eggs, apples, cranberries, leeks, and other great produce. No flowers, of course, and very few greens, but you should be able to satisfy your evergreen cravings.  I didn't see any pointsettia plants (they need warmth, too).

To see which stands are here today:Union Square Greenmarket

Where's Lucy???

Just in case you were wondering what happened to the Report, the "bug" that's been going around decided to stop off at my house and I've been having a bout of the "flu", or whatever it is. I expect to be back in business soon, maybe Friday.

Meanwhile, enjoy the Greenmarket and have a glass of Ronnybrook's superb eggnog!!!

BULLETIN: WHICH GREENMARKETS HAVE YOUR BEAUTIFUL TREE? INFO FROM GROWNY

Deck the Halls

Get your locally grown Christmas trees, wreaths, and boughs from a local farmer. A list of markets where you can stock up on holiday greens follows:

Caradonna Farms: Trees (Union Square Wednesday, Saturday)
Fiori Di Fenice: Wreaths (Union Square, Saturday)
Floral Beauty Greenhouse: Douglass fir trees (Columbia, Sunday)
Keith's Farm: Organic trees and wreaths (Union Square Wednesday, Saturday)
Lebak Farms: Wreaths (Grand Army Plaza, Saturday)
Mountain Sweet Berry Farm: Wreaths and princess pines (Union Square, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)
Rexcroft Farm: Trees, wreaths, garlands (Dag Hammarskjold, Wednesday; Fort Greene, Saturday)
River Garden: Dried flower wreaths (Union Square, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)
Stokes Farm: Herb wreaths (Tucker, Thursday, Saturday; Union Square, Saturday)
Trumansburg Tree Farms: Trees and wreaths (Union Square Wednesday (12/18), Friday (12/20), Saturday; Grand Army Plaza, Saturday (12/7)
Van Houten Farms: Trees and wreaths (Union Square, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday)