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

Heirloom tomato and peach fests continue! Toigo, Oak Grove, Samascot, Sycamore, and others have delicious varieties of both. This is the last of Toigo's yellow donut peaches. Norwich has several kinds of ripe and ready melons.

Red Jacket apricots

Oak Grove, Norwich Meadows, Miglorelli, Bodhitree, and others have delicious looking squashes and a wide choice of shelling and string beans.Sycamore, Van Houten, Miglorelli, and others have corn.

Norwich Provencal style melons

Norwich Farms local ginger!

Berried Treasures has Tri-Star strawberries and red currants. Norwich has field strawberries and raspberries and Samascot has blueberries and strawberries.

Berried Treasure's zucchini blossoms

B&Y has ducks, rabbits, Cornish game hens, and French "poulet rouge" chickens.  Pura Vida is here with fresh fish and shellfish.

Modesto with Campo Rosso peppers

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/q3wu7lq

Heirloom Tomato Fest! Aunt Rubys at Stokes, Paul Robesons at Keith's, San Marzanos at Cherry Lane, and many beautiful varieties all around the Greenmarket!

Bodhitree tomatoes

Eckerton has many varieties of cherry tomato and small tomatoes as well as their usual array of choice heirloom and other tomatoes, including San Marzano, Amish Paste, and other sauce tomatoes.

Cherry Lane

Bodhitree also has many heirloom varieties as does Oak Grove. Oak Grove also has a large range of hot and sweet peppers. S&SO has their great bargain mixed boxes of small hot peppers.

Hoeffner

Oak Grove eggplants

Eggplant is also widely available, with fairytale, white, striped, deep purple, Japanese, and other kinds on many stands.  There are also good looking squashes and melons of all kinds all around the market.

Berried Treasures rattlesnake beans

There are also interesting beans, including rattlesnake beans at Berried Treasures and curly green and yellow beans at Mountain Sweet Berry.

Madura mushrooms

Many kinds of cut herbs are available at Stokes, Berried Treasures, and other stands, including chervil, sorrel, and various mints.

Mountain Sweet Berry chervil

Herbs in pots are here at Oak Grove and Silver Heights, and Silver Heights has several kinds of potted greens, including arugula and other bitter greens, and lush looking potted lettuces.

Locust Grove currants and blackberries

Oak Grove and Caradonna have white and yellow peaches and Caradonna and others have nectarines. Locust Grove has peaches and plums as well as berries and currants (the white ones are going fast), and Fantasy Fruit has strawberries and blueberries.  Phillips has blackberries and raspberries.

Oak Grove yellow and white peaches

To see these and other stands and produce:  http://tinyurl.com/npn5psg

Norwich Meadows has a huge selection of shelling beans, string beans, peppers, heirloom tomatoes, squashes, and melons. Lani also has many kinds of bean, heirloom tomato, herbs, greens, and peppers.

Eckerton peppers

In fact, many stands have good-looking heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and squashes.  Eckerton, for instance, has a wide variety of hot peppers, large heirloom tomatoes, and other sizes of tomato down to tiny! (By the way, I heard a rumor that this is Tim Stark's twentieth year! He's been growing beautiful produce for a long time.)

Blue Oyster's pink oyster mushrooms

 Blue Oyster is here with pink oyster mushrooms and several other kinds, and Madura has porcini and other mushrooms as well.

Norwich Meadows flageolets

Red Jacket has several tasty varieties of plum, as do Truncillito and others.  Several stands have yellow and red donut peaches, nectarines, and peaches.
Phillips has peaches and berries.  Fantasy Fruit has blueberries and Tri-Star strawberries. Norwich has red and yellow raspberries.

Norwich Meadows baby artichokes

Dutchmill has gorgeous gladiolas, sunflowers, and other flowers and River Garden has dahlias and other flowers.

Painted Goat goat cheese

She Wolf Bakery is here with sourdough, spelt, and miche-style breads.

Lani's lima beans

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/pgmmru3