Egyptian spinach at Stokes. Good looking heirloom tomatoes at Stokes, Oak Grove, Cherry Lane, Cheerful Cherry, Eckerton, Lani, Sycamore, Keith, and others.

Hoeffner's peppers

Beautiful eggplants everywhere, along with squashes.  D'Attolico has lovely zucchini blossoms, squashes, carrots, and sprouts.  Gorgeous salad greens at S&SO, Gorzynski, Paffenroth, and Keith.  Big bunches of cut herbs at Paffenroth, Stokes, S&SO.

PE&DD

A wide variety of peppers at Oak Grove and Eckerton, as well as S&SO, Cheerful,  and Hoeffner.  Corn at Miglorelli, Sycamore.  Edible flowers at Windfall.Beautiful produce at Norwich Meadows Farm, including heirloom tomatoes, many kinds of sweet and hot peppers, and a wide variety of shelling beans.

Eckerton

Phillips, Fantasy Fruits, and Locust Grove have raspberries and other berries. Locust also has grapes, luscious looking plums, and peaches.  Caradonna has good looking stone fruit and vegetables and Bulich has several kinds of tasty mushrooms.

Cayuga is back!!!!!!!!!

To see these and other stands and produce:  http://tinyurl.com/mf4l273

Northshire

 

Shelling beans and sweet sungold tomatoes, along with elderberries, zucchini blossoms, heirlooms at Berried Treasures. Bodhitree and Norwich Meadows have all kinds of heirloom tomatoes, beautiful eggplants, melons.

Berried Treasures

Pura Vida is here with skate, tuna, and shellfish, and Roaming Acres has ostrich, beef, pork, and ostrich products. Flying Pig has pork cuts and B&Y has delicious lamb cuts, lamb sausages and patties, and cornish game hens, in addition to beautiful wool and handmade sweaters.

Norwich Meadows artichokes

Sycamore has great corn, tasty heirloom tomatoes, and other delicious produce, and Toigo, Oak Grove, Cheerful Cherry, and others have slurpy peaches. Cheerful also has luscious Champagne grapes and heirloom tomatoes.

Toigo nectarines

Beth's Farm Kitchen has a wide variety of succulent jams and chutneys and Bobolink has wonderful cheddars. Consider Bardwell has delicious cow and goat cheeses.

Samascott raspberries

Las Delicias has a variety of pies and other sweet and savory pastries.
 Dutchmill has the last of their lycianthus today and Rose Meadow has fragrant country roses and other flowers. River Garden has several kinds of country flowers as well.

Dutchmill

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/lu3fafc

Elderberries at Berried Treasures! Greengage plums at Red Jacket! Gorgeous heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, everywhere!

Bodhitree

BUT -- there are also grapes at Locust Grove, and you know what that means! Take advantage of the peak season now! There are beautiful San Marzano and other sauce tomatoes at Cherry Lane, Mountain Sweet Berry, Eckerton, Berried Treasures, Stokes, and Oak Grove. Now's the time to start making sauce for the freezer.  There are beautiful hot and sweet peppers at Bodhitree, Oak Grove, S&SO and other stands and many kinds of beets and carrots at Paffenroth.

Cherry Lane's San Marzanos

You'll be happy to know that the Union Square Greenmarket will be open all weekend AND Monday. Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Red Jacket's Greengage plums

To see these and other stands and produce:  http://tinyurl.com/lvakoze

B&Y have beautiful yarns, lamb chops, and other cuts as well as fresh chickens and other delicious items. Toigo, Samascott, Oak Grove, and Cherry Lane have delicious peaches. Berried Treasures and Norwich Meadows have wide selections of shelling beans.

Toigo nectarines

Berried Treasures also has beautiful green and yellow haricots and they and Norwich have delicious flat beans as well. Several stands have melons and Toigo has slurpy yellow nectarines. Oak Grove has many varieties of hot and sweet peppers as well as tomatillos and delicious heirloom tomatoes. Other stands with beautiful heirlooms include Sycamore, Bodhitree, Queens County Farm Museum, and Cheerful Cherry. 

Norwich Meadows sweet peppers

Consider Bardwell has two delicious goat cheeses and several tasty cow cheeses. Several stands have strong choices of squashes and flavoring peppers such as shishito at Bodhitree. Norwich Meadows has a stunning array of heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, melons, and unique greens. The only thing missing today is Toigo's wonderful white nectarines, which are gone for the season. 

Berried Treasures Tri-Stars

To see these and other stands and produce:http://tinyurl.com/ps2vt8f

Tomato heaven! There are beautiful heirloom tomatoes all around the market today. I picked up an Aunt Ruby and a couple of others at various stands and saw beauties at Eckerton, Stokes, Keith, Cherry Lane, Oak Grove, Bodhitree, and others.

Rogowski snow peas

Mountain Sweet Berry, Cherry Lane, Berried Treasures, and others have gorgeous sauce tomatoes, too. It was hard to resist filling a whole shopping cart today!

S&SO artichokes and tomatillos

It's actually peak season for tomatoes, peaches, corn, squashes of all sorts, and a wide variety of hot and sweet peppers are coming into peak.  I picked up some Anaheims at Oak Grove, along with a couple of tomatoes, and have a beautiful bowlful of knockout tomatoes and peppers to admire before I dig in.  Don't miss the lovely shelling beans and string beans at Berried Treasures and the sucrine lettuces both green and red at Mountain Sweet Berry. Both of those also have sweet Tri-Star strawberries and wild blueberries, and Berried Treasures has rhubarb!

Eckerton's heirloom tomatoes

Paffenroth has multicolored choices of carrots, tasty beets, and unusual greens like purslane, tiny baby fennel, and huge bunches of cut herbs.  There are many stands with berries and currants, including Locust Grove, Fantasy Fruit, Phillips, Hodgsons, and others.

Garden of Eden mushrooms

Sycamore has their usual great corn and tomatoes and has brought in a new product -- zucchini bread -- which I had for breakfast and was delicious.

Berried Treasures beans

Stokes lima beans

To see these and other stands and produce here today: http://tinyurl.com/lupdpxo

Max trouts

New on Saturdays -- TAMARACK! They've been in other days but this is their Saturday debut!

Norwich has many kinds of shelling beans, fresh ginger, several types of melons, and heirloom tomatoes, peppers, PEANUTS, and other great produce.  Stokes has beautiful heirloom tomatoes, including Aunt Rubys and other popular varieties, and Eckerton has lovely heirloom tomatoes as well as peppers.

Stokes beauties

 Oak Grove has a wide variety of hot and sweet peppers, heirloom tomatoes, melons, white and yellow peaches, tomatillos,  and corn. Lani has a wide variety of unusual greens, heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, and squashes.

Keith's Farm Rocambole garlic

Paffenroth and S&SO have gorgeous greens and other produce and Mountain Sweet Berry has several kinds of fabulous sauce tomatoes, small potatoes, and unusual greens.  Windfall has lovely edible flowers and various unique greens.

D'Attolico's delicious carrots

Red Jacket has excellent apricots and Locust Grove has currants, berries, peaches, and plums.

Locust Grove grapes!

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/lst3vga

Cherry Lane eggplant

 

Sorry to be so late -- wasn't going to post today -- but I have to say there are stunningly beautiful heirloom tomatoes at Eckerton and Norwich, beautiful apricots at Red Jacket, and all sorts of gorgeous stone fruit all over the market.

Consider Bardwell has their prize winning Rupert cheese, Race is here with great produce, and many stands have blueberries and other fruit. All of it looks wondeerful.

To see just how wonderful: http://tinyurl.com/mtoj9dm

It's definitely peak season for stone fruit, squashes, heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, all sorts of beautiful produce!

Great corn at Sycamore, Hoeffner, and others. Beautiful salad greens at Gorzynsky, Northshire, Mountain Sweet Berry, Paffenroth, S&SO, and many others.  Stunning heirloom tomatoes at Cheerful Cherry, Eckerton, Stokes, Cherry Lane, Oak Grove, and others, and a wonderful selection of hot and sweet peppers at Hoeffner, Eckerton, Oak Grove, and Norwich Meadows. Norwich also has a marvelous selection of eggplants, as do S&SO and Cherry Lane.

As for peaches,yellow and white, there are beauties at Oak Grove, Locust Grove, and others, and Locust Grove and Miglorelli have a couple of kinds of donut peaches.  Mountain Sweet Berry, Phillips, Fantasy Fruit, and Hodgson have various berries, and Locust and Phillips have red currants.

To see these and other stands and the gorgeous bounty of produce: http://tinyurl.com/net8bc9

Norwich has fresh ginger! They'll probably have fresh peanuts as well on Monday -- today's got sold out! A new farm for Fridays -- B&Y -- with lamb, eggs, beautiful yarns!

B and Y's first Friday!

Consider Bardwell's Rupert cheese won first prize!

Toigo

Toigo's white and yellow peaches and nectarines are ready to eat today! They also have ripe donut peaches, including a yellow variety that tastes a little like a mango.  Cheerful Cherry also has delicious peaches and plums and other stands also are piled high with tasty stone fruit.

Norwich ginger

Norwich, Bodhitree, Sycamore, Cheerful Cherry,and others have great heirloom tomatoes, and many stands have good-looking (and fragrant) corn.  Norwich has artichokes and many kinds of peppers, beans, melons, eggplants, and other excellent produce, and Bodhitree has beautiful greens, unique peppers, melons, eggplants, and herbs.

Oak Grove Tomatillos

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/pvbweyo

It's peak season and the Greenmarket is full of great produce. Stone fruit, squashes, eggplants, peppers both sweet and hot, heirloom tomatoes, tiny cucumbers (at Eckerton), kirbies, and other interesting cucumber varieties, all sorts of beans!

Just about all of our farmers are here today (with the exception of Cheerful Cherry and Silver Heights) with an abundance of produce. Stokes has lemon grass, Oak Grove has several kinds of pepper plant as well as various hot peppers, Cherry Lane has beautiful eggplant varieties, and Paffenroth has many unusual greens.  Windfall has lovely edible flowers and D'Attolico has beautiful zucchini flowers.  Locust Grove and Fantasy Fruit have great berries and currants and Hodgson has spray-free blueberries.

To see these and other stands and produce:http://tinyurl.com/palm2h9

Congratulations to Modesto on the 20th anniversary of foraging in the Greenmarket!!!

Modesto checking out the peppers at Norwich

Gramercy Tavern is lucky to have him choosing the beautiful produce we enjoy in the tavern or main rooms there.  I've enjoyed trying to get to the beautiful Charontais melons at Norwich Meadows Farm or Bodhitree before he goes through and snaffles the supply!

It was a schmoozathon today in Union Square. Met a guy who's only two or three degrees of separation from me shopping at Consider Bardwell's cheese stand! (His father went to my high school, his boss went to my college, etc.) It can be fun talking to other customers in the market.

Toigo's wonderful stone fruit

Meanwhile, back to those melons. You can't go wrong with a fragrant melon from one of those two sources, not to mention their delicious heirloom tomatoes! Many stands have mixed varieties of eggplants, squashes, beans, and corn. There are Tri-Star strawberries and red currants at Berried Treasures, along with fava beans out of their shells, zucchini blossoms, and cut herbs.  Madura has several kinds of mushroom and Lucky Dog has good-looking blueberries.

Oak Grove

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/ou3km8v

Bodhitree