Buzzard Krest grapes and grape juices are back! It's a great tomato and peach day, but the season is changing, so seize the day!

STOKES SWEET PEPPERS

Oak Grove, Locust Grove, and others have delicious white and yellow peaches. In addition to those, Caradonna and others have nectarines and many kinds of plum.  Pears and apples are coming into the mix, so enjoy the stone fruit while you may! Locust Grove and others have grapes, including Fantasy Fruit's champagne variety.

Van Houten Watermelon

Norwich Meadows Farm, Stokes, Oak Grove, Eckerton,Keith, Cherry Lane,  and others have great heirloom and other tomatoes. Oak Grove and Eckerton have fantastic varieties of hot and sweet pepper and S&SO has generous boxes of mixed hot peppers.

Cato Corner cheeses

Many stands have many varieties of eggplant, including Lani, S&SO, Miglorelli, D'Attolico, and others.  Norwich Meadow and Lani have shelling beans and other beans and Van Houten, Oak Grove, S&SO and others have several kinds of melon, including watermelon and NY State canteloupe.

Keith's peppers and eggplants

Paffenroth and Stokes have unique greens and herbs and most of the stands I've mentioned here have a wide variety of squashes and eggplants.  I saw a couple of winter squash varieties this morning, a propos of the sneaking in of the Fall.

Ryder Farm winter squashes

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/o3zqjup

Buzzard Krest Canadice grapes (my fave)

 

Toigo has peaches and nectarines in addition to several kinds of plum and tomato. Phillips has berries and Samascott has berries, peaches, and vegetables as well as apples.

Toigo nectarines

Norwich ginger

Norwich Farm has strawberries, raspberries, all sizes of tomato (including gorgeous plum varieties and heirlooms as well as cherry tomatoes), shelling beans, two kinds of locally grown ginger, sweet and hot peppers, and melons.

Oak Grove peppers

Van Houten has lima beans, various melons, sweet peppers, and corn.  Red Jacket has greengage plums.  Oak Grove has white and yellow peaches, corn, heirloom tomatoes, melons, many kinds of pepper(hot and sweet) and eggplant, various flours and popping corn.

Campo Rosso frying peppers

Berried Treasures fresh shelled beans

Berried Treasures has elderberries, raspberries, strawberries, many kinds of shelled shelling beans, haricots verts, heirloom tomatoes, several small potatoes, and cut herbs.

Treelicious peaches

Toigo said that  next week will probably be the last for their peaches.

B&Y lamb stew

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/oy3r899

Silver Heights is here with a wide variety of plants for city gardening, including greens, vegetables, herbs, and other unique sets. Next Wednesday will be their last day in the Greenmarket ever, as the farmers are retiring!

Bodhitree

Bodhitree is taking a  month off!!!!

Stokes sweet peppers

Everything is tempting in the market today, with colorful displays all around the park.  Along with the sad headline of our soon to be retired Silver Heights is the good news that Buzzard Krest will be back in the Greenmarket with luscious grapes and grape juices (maybe this coming Saturday!!!).

Stokes Farm, Eckerton, Oak Grove, Berried Treasures, and others have glorious collections of heirloom tomatoes in many sizes.  Eckerton and Oak Grove have many small and large hot and sweet peppers and several other farms have smaller collections of delicious varieties.

Bulich has beautiful portabello and other fresh mushrooms and Madura has several kinds as well.  Paffenroth has several unique vegetables, including puntarella, purslane, various mustard greens and kales, carrots, herbs, unusual shallots, daikon, and much, much more.

Berried Treasures fresh dried beans

 Berried Treasures has fresh and dried shelling beans today!

S&SO artichokes

Bodhitree, Van Houten, Oak Grove, Kernan, and others have good looking melons, and Oak Grove, Caradonna, Terhune, and others have yellow and white peaches and plums.  Grapes are here at Fantasy Fruit, Locust Grove, and Caradonna, signalling Fall, despite the 90 degree weather!

Eckerton hot peppers

Oak Grove hot peppers

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

Tamarack string beans

The main thing is -- get out there as early as possible. This will be a scorcher!

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