There are many beautiful vegetables, fruits, and other items in the Monday Greenmarket, including Roaming Acres bison, PE&DD seafood, lavender, delicious baked goods at Las Delicias, breads at She Wolf, and flowers at Dutchmill and River Garden.

Norwich Meadows shelling beans

Better get out there and shop now, if you can. It's already 79 degrees and getting humid!  I'm glad I had the foresight to stock up on gazpacho ingredients over the weekend!

Race Farm peaches and plums

Norwich Meadows has beautiful heirloom tomatoes, fresh local ginger, several kinds of shelling beans, okras, peppers, eggplants, strawberries, raspberries, squashes, and masses of melons!

Red Jacket Apricot Stomp

Race is here with tasty peaches and other stone fruit in addition to many fresh vegetables. Phillips has raspberries, blackberries, peaches, and other fruits in addition to melons, onions, potatoes, squashes, beans, greens, and other produce.

Madura has mushrooms and popcorn in addition to various vegetables. Truncillito has peaches, blue plums, and other fruit.

PE&DD seafood

Some of Eckerton's wide variety of hot peppers

To see these and other stands and produce:  http://tinyurl.com/p4e9wp4

Lani's unique greens

Paradise for hot pepper fans as Oak Grove, Eckerton, and S&SO bring wide unique selections to the market today. Others with interesting varieties include Stokes and Norwich Farms.

Eckerton

Other stands have smaller selections of excellent hot and sweet peppers.

Stokes Farm

It's still Peach and Plum fest at Locust Grove, Miglorelli, Caradonna, and others. Norwich has the widest variety of shelling beans and Oak Grove, Norwich, Miglorelli, Cherry Lane, and others have many kinds of eggplant and squash.

Cato Corner cheeses

There are still several interesting kinds of heirloom tomato at Eckerton, Cherry Lane, Sycamore, Oak Grove, Stokes, Keith, and others. Mountain Sweet Berry, D'Attolico, Eckerton, and Cherry Lane, among others, also have great sauce tomatoes.

Norwich Meadows fresh local ginger

There are several stands with generous bunches of cut herbs, including Stokes, S&SO, Keith, Eckerton, and Sycamore.

D'Attolico eggplant

To see these and many other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/q3lh4km

Toigo has white and yellow nectarines and white and yellow peaches. Oak Grove also has white and yellow peaches. Enjoy them while the season lasts!

Norwich Meadows ginger, husk berries

Good news -- Toigo says they will have peaches into September! They also have plums, nectarines, and tomatoes.  Samascott still has blueberries along with peaches, apples, and vegetables.

Toigo plums

Samascott blueberries

There are beautiful heirloom tomatoes at Sycamore, Campo Rosso, Berried Treasures, Lucky Dog, and Norwich Meadows. Norwich also has a wide selection of squashes, eggplants, peppers, lettuces, and melons.

Oak Grove yellow and white peaches

 Miglorelli has corn, peaches, squashes, and other produce.  Berried Treasures has several kinds of fresh shelled beans including flageolets. Miglorelli, Norwich, and Oak Grove have tomatillos, and Norwich has locally grown ginger!

Berried Treasures fresh shelled beans

Consider Bardwell has several prize winning cheeses including "Manchester", a delicious hard style goat cheese.  Beth's Farm Kitchen has many tasty chutneys, jams, and fruit syrups, and a selection of barbecue, not, and ketchup sauces.

B&Y

To see these and other stands and produce here today:
http://tinyurl.com/pps39g7

Peaches, nectarines, squashes, melons, blackberries, corn, peppers hot and sweet, heirloom and other tomatoes, all kinds of eggplants!

Stokes Farm husk cherries

Bulich mushrooms

Berried Treasures has many kinds of shelling beans -- shell them now, freeze them, and you'll have them all winter!

Berried Treasures shelling beans

 Eckerton, Cherry Lane, Stokes, Mountain Sweet Berry, and others have gorgeous San Marzano and other sauce tomatoes for canning and freezing. Do it now while they're still at peak!

Eckerton sauce tomatoes

Bodhitree has many kinds of bean, squash, eggplant, cut herbs, and greens. S&SO and Oak Grove have tomatillos, S&SO has artichokes, and Stokes and Oak Grove have husk "cherries".

Van Houten melons

Van Houten has huge fragrant musk melons and watermelons. Oak Grove, Bodhitree, and others have various melons, including Mountain Sweet Berry with succulent Charentais melons.

Mountain Sweet Berry's Charentais melons

To see these and other beautiful produce, breads, pastries, meats and fish:
http://tinyurl.com/nwqqetr

Ravioli made with Tonjes ricotta, Ardith Mae's delicious goat cheeses, Three Corner Field Farm's tasty sheep cheeses, Cato Corner's wonderful cow's milk cheeses! We're lucky to have these fresh unique options.

Shiners at Seatuck

There are gorgeous heirloom tomatoes everywhere today, including Sycamore, Stokes, Norwich Meadows, Lani, Eckerton, and others.

Stokes Aunt Rubys

 Oak Grove and Eckerton have many of their excellent hot and sweet peppers and many stands have a variety of eggplants, including fairy tale (tiny purple striped), and summer squashes.

Tamarack's eggplants

 Several stands have good looking shelling beans, including Norwich, Lani, Tamarack, and Stokes.

Norwich cranberry beans

Oak Grove has white and yellow peaches, heirloom tomatoes, squashes, and eggplants along with corn and melons. Van Houten has watermelons, sweet peppers, corn, and other produce.

D'Attolico squashes

Seatuck has beautiful fish, including bluefish, shiners, and shellfish. PE&DD has cooked lobsters, various fish salads, lovely fresh fish and shellfish.  Violet Hill has poultry, bacon, lamb cuts, and various chicken eggs along with foraged vegetables and mushrooms.

Violet Hill chicken eggs

Quattro's has turkey and chicken eggs, pheasants, ducks, chickens, and other poultry, as well as smoked poultry.

Stokes lemon grass

Stokes, Lani, S&SO, and others have cut herbs, and Oak Grove, Binder, and others have potted herbs.

Bulich mushrooms

To see these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/nut3z28

Blue plums, grapes, a chill in the morning air. One more week for Toigo's delicious peaches. Sad to say, I know what's coming.

Toigo

So...carpe diem! Seize the beautiful peaches, plums, nectarines, heirloom tomatoes, shelling beans, eggplants, squashes, while ye may!  Summer melons, too!

Norwich Meadows melons

Toigo , Samascott, and Oak Grove, among others, have slurpy delicious peaches today.  Toigo also has nectarines and many kinds of plum.  I found two perfect Aunt Ruby heirloom tomatoes among a selection of good looking heirlooms at Sycamore, a couple of excellent cucumbers at Norwich, and beautiful hot peppers at Oak Grove. Gazpacho!  Berried Treasures and Norwich have beautiful string beans and shelling beans -- a friend I met in the market is making succatash with Berried Treasures haricots verts and corn from Miglorelli.

Norwich shelling beans

Oak Grove pepper plants

I picked up some classic blue plums from Toigo and am planning to make a plum cake.  I'll be having peaches from Oak Grove and blueberries from Samascott with Old Chatham vanilla bean yogurt for breakfast today.  Bodhitree and Norwich have tasty melons today, so I may have them for dessert tomorrow. I have prosciutto from Eately to eat on the Cavaillon (Charentais, they call it at Norwich) mini-melon.

Oak Grove hot peppers

There is wonderful fresh fish at Pura Vida, fresh young greens at Campo Rosso, prizewinning cheese at Consider Bardwell, sweet gelato at Ole Mother Hubbert, and gorgeous produce everywhere in the market today.

Pura Vida fish

To see who's here and what they've brought:  http://tinyurl.com/nv8vkck

Norwich Meadows has bargain eggplants, peppers, and heirloom tomatoes for $2 a pound. They looked perfectly fine to me -- good for gazpacho, for instance.

Norwich "bruised" peppers

Old Mother Hubbert has several kinds of gelato and many farmers, including Lani, Phillips, and others,  have good looking melons of all kinds. Red Jacket has their delicious fruit juices and many kinds of peach and plum, and Troncillito has donut peaches, regular yellow and white peaches, and plums.

Race Farm cranberry beans

Fantasy Fruit has blueberries and Tri-Star strawberries, and Race has several kinds of stone fruit as well as vegetables and good looking boxes of mixed peppers.  Eckerton has several sizes of heirloom tomato as well as many kinds of hot peppers.

Old Mother Hubbert gelato

Lani has several types of basil and other cut herbs as well as eggplants, heirloom tomatoes, squashes, long beans, and several unique greens. Norwich has many varieties of shelling bean, string bean, and melons, along with baby artichokes, tomatillos, and other interesting produce.  Madura has various mushrooms and Blue Oyster has interesting new varieties of oyster mushroom, including pink!

Blue Oyster mushrooms

Lani squash blossoms

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

Last day for Phillips blueberries! Last day for Durr's beautiful lycianthus! Grapes at Caradonna and Locust Grove (first sign of Autumn's approach).

lycianthus

sweet Aunt Rubys at Stokes

Gorgeous peak heirloom tomatoes at Eckerton, Stokes, Oak Grove, Lani and others. Oak Grove and Eckerton have wide varieties of hot peppers and Stokes, Gorzynski, S&SO and others have delicious fresh cut herbs.

Paul Robesons at Keith's

Seatuck's scallops

Seatuck and PE&DD have beautiful fresh fish and seafood, Quattro's and Violet Hill have wonderful poultry, and Flying Pig has tasty pork cuts, roasts, and sausages.

Quattro's eggs

Bulich mushrooms

Violet Hill chanterelles

Violet Hill has good looking foraged mushrooms and greens as well as rabbits, Belle Rouge chickens, pork products, eggs, and honey. Quattro's has smoked poultry, pheasants, ducks and duck parts, and duck, chicken, and other eggs.

Norwich Meadows baby artichokes

Oak Grove, Caradonna, and others have delicious white and yellow peaches, and Caradonna, Phillips, Fantasy Fruit, Hodgsons, and others have berries. Norwich Meadows has raspberries, strawberries, many kinds of string bean, many kinds of shelling beans, eggplants, peppers, heirloom tomatoes, and greens. They also have several kinds of melon.  Van Houten also has melons as well as other produce, and Cherry Lane has melons, fairytale and other eggplants, and corn.

Sycamore peaches

Lani has shelling beans, unique greens, herbs, and heirloom tomatoes.  Mountain Sweet Berry has heirloom sauce tomatoes, Tri-Star strawberries, sucrine lettuces, and cut herbs as well as small potatoes.

Ryder Farm okra

You can't miss today in the market, but go as early as you can. It's already a little toasty out there!

Caradonna grapes!

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/oezc2jo