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December 2016

December 2016
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Strawberries, large and small! CHERRIES! Greenhouse heirloom tomatoes! STRING BEANS! Sugar snap peas and English shelling peas!

Stokes garlic scapes
Young garlic and onions at Keith and Stokes.  Beautiful salad greens at Eckerton, S&SO, Miglorelli and others. Paffenroth, Sycamore, and others have zucchini and summer squash, and many stands have cut herbs, including Paffenroth, Bodhitree, Stokes, Keith and Berried Treasures.

Strawberries: Berried Treasures, Stokes, Phillips, Kernan, Mountain Sweet Berry, and Sycamore, among others. Locust Grove has strawberries, cherries, and had red currants when I went by. Caradonna has many kinds of fruit, including strawberries, various types of cherries, and blueberries.

Asparagus, sugar snaps, and English shelling peas are at Cherry Lane, along with greenhouse heirloom tomatoes.
Kernan
Hodgson and Berried Treasures have peonies and Rose Meadow has many kinds of flowers. Dutchmill has sweet peas, lilies, and other flowers.

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/ozp9c6x

Monday, June 15, 2015

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Cherries at Sycamore and Locust Grove. Strawberries at Stokes, Sycamore, Miglorelli, Eckerton, Lani, Mountain Sweet Berry and others. Sugar snaps, English shelling peas, and snow peas at Cherry Lane, Garlic scapes and young garlic at Keith, Stokes, and many other stands today.

I'm planning a pasta primavera for dinner! Strawberries for dessert, with a few of the first cherries just for the heck of it.
Seatuck
The greenmarket is beautifully colorful and the offerings are lush. There are several stands with many kinds of salad greens, including Lani, S&SO, Eckerton, Paffenroth, Norwich, and many others.

Norwich Meadows
 Stokes has sweet cherry tomatoes and greenhouse heirloom tomatoes. Cherry Lane has tasty greenhouse heirlooms, salad greens, and cucumbers.

Violet Hill and Bulich have many kinds of mushroom and Windfall has many varieties of minigreens and edible flowers.
Oak Grove
Hodgeson

To see these and other stands and offerings: http://tinyurl.com/pxjxy98

Friday, June 12, 2015

Toigo has strawberries and CHERRIES. Samascott, Stokes, and others have strawberries and asparagus.

Stokes and Norwich have young garlic, garlic scapes, beautiful salad greens,and cut herbs. Bodhitree has three varieties of string bean. Campo Rosso has FAVA BEANS! Stokes has amazingly sweet cherry tomatoes and Berried Treasures has tiny strawberries and potatoes as well as cress, herbs, and stunning peonies. Miglorelli has sugar snaps and English shelling peas.  Samascott and others have rhubarb.

Pura Vida has many kinds of delicious fresh fish and seafood.  Lucky Dog has guinea hens and goats milk.  Roaming Acres has several kinds of meat and Consider Bardwell has veal cuts and cheeses. B&Y has tasty lamb cuts and Cornish game hens as well as gorgeous wool.

This is peak strawberry season and they and asparagus seem to be everywhere -- but the season is nearly over for some local areas, so Carpe Diem!!!

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/ooc2vna

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Cherries! made a brief appearance but were mostly gone by 9:00.

There are a few different varieties of strawberry here today at Phillips, Berried Treasures, Sycamore,Mountain Sweet Berry, Caradonna, Bodhitree, and others.
Asparagus is available at many stands including Stokes, Kernan, Hoeffner, and others. Cherry Lane has asparagus, heirloom and other tomatoes, sugar snaps, English shelling peas, and strawberries.

Stokes and others have young garlic and garlic scapes. Keith's Farm has green garlic, and young onions. Beautiful lettuces and other salad greens are on many stands and generous bunches of cut herbs can be found at S&SO and Stokes. Windfall has a wide selection of mini-greens and edible flowers.

Dutchmill's peony season is over but Hodgson and Berried Treasures have beautiful ones. Rose Meadow has a variety of lovely flowers as well.

To see these and other stands and produce:  http://tinyurl.com/odqa6kr

Saturday, June 6, 2015

English shelling peas are so popular today that they're almost all gone! There are plenty of good sugar snap peas at Cherry Lane, Eckerton, and Miglorelli.

A novelty at Lani -- fresh Szechuan peppers!  Delicious cherry tomatoes at Stokes, along with strawberries, rhubarb, tomatoes, asparagus, beets, herbs, and beautiful greens.  Keith is here with rocambole garlic, red and yellow young onions, cut herbs, potatoes, and other tasty organic vegetables.  Gorzynski has lovely lettuces and other greens as well as rhubarb.

Quattro's has duck , turkey, pheasant, and chicken eggs, as well as chicken and chicken parts, sausages, smoked poultry, and duck parts.  Seatuck and PE&DD have beautiful fish and shellfish.

Hodgson has peonies, I Fiori has lovely lilies and hyacinths, and Rose Meadow and James Durr have many varieties of beautiful flowers.
Stokes sweet cherry tomatoes
Violet Hill and Locust Grove were not here when I went through the market.

To see which stands are here today and what they've brought:
http://tinyurl.com/oer9u6g

Friday, June 5, 2015

Campo Rosso has lovely lettuces and other greens. Stokes, Bodhitree, Samascott, Phillips, and others have beautiful strawberries.

Stokes, Samascott, Madura, Miglorelli, and others have asparagus, and Samascott has good-looking rhubarb.

 Several stands have young onions and garlic, and Windfall, Two Guys, Bodhitree, and Lucky Dog have cut herbs. Berried Treasures has cress and other greens and herbs as well as tiny potatoes. Pura Vida has tasty looking fresh fish and shellfish.

Dutchmill, Berried Treasures, and Rose Meadow have beautiful flowers, including peonies, anemones, lilies, and lupins.

To see these and other stands and produce:  http://tinyurl.com/pg9d8ov