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Check here for GrowNY's Greenmarket Maps for Union Square: http://www.grownyc.org/unionsquaregreenmarket

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Last day until Spring for Silver Heights -- big plant sale! Berried Treasures has many varieties of fresh shelled beans.

Mountain Sweet Berry, Fantasy Fruits, Berried Treasures and others have sweet strawberries. Raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries are also available at various stands.  Red Jacket has greengage plums, Locust Grove has plums and berries, and Kernan, Oak Grove, and many others have peaches and nectarines.
Stokes Farm lemongrass
Beautiful heirloom tomatoes are everywhere, including Stokes, Oak Grove, Cherry Lane, Mountain Sweet Berry, Berried Treasures,Sycamore, Eckerton, and others.  Peppers both hot and sweet are available at S&SO, Oak Grove, Eckerton, Stokes, and others.

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/ol7bfo4

Saturday, September 6, 2014

BUZZARD KREST IS BACK with delicious grapes and grape juices! BERRIED TREASURES is here with beautiful shelling beans, heirloom tomatoes, and other beans.

BUZZARD KREST
It's pepper season at Eckerton, Oak Grove, S&SO, Cheerful Cherry, and others. Heirloom tomatoes are all around the market -- at Stokes, Oak
Grove, Miglorelli, Norwich Meadows, Eckerton, Lani, Mountain Sweet Berry, Cherry Lane, Cheerful Cherry,  Locust Grove, and others. Paffenroth, Norwich Meadows, Lani, Stokes, Gorzynski, D'Attolico, Hudson Valley, and others have tasty unique greens, herbs, and other produce. This is definitely a sauce-for-the-freezer-making day! I'm cranking up the AC and going to town!
CHEERFUL CHERRY
Hoeffner has many kinds of pepper, greens, corn, and other produce. Phillips and Fantasy Fruit have berries, and Fantasy Fruit has elderberries!  There's a new jam-maker in the market today, Josephine's Feast, and Beth's Farm Kitchen has fruit syrups in addition to their jams, chutneys, and pickled vegetables.

Bulich and Violet Hill have mushrooms, and Violet Hill has fresh rabbit, chickens, pork products, and honey.  Flying Pig has pork cuts and products as well as chickens.  Seatuck has razor clams, fish, and other shellfish. PE&DD has cooked lobsters, many kinds of fish, and fish salads.
SEATUCK

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

Friday, September 5, 2014

Toigo's peaches, nectarines, and plums -- delicious and going out of season. This may be their last week -- apples are coming in! Heirloom tomatoes are plentiful all around the market.

Toigo nectarines

Van Houten heirlooms
Cheerful Cherry has nectarines, peaches and plums, but time is ticking away! They have beautiful heirloom tomatoes and a sale on stone fruit.  Red Jacket has greengage plums and Bodhitree, Oak Grove, and others have several kinds of melon.  Oak Grove, Sycamore, Bodhitree, Norwich Meadows, and others have luscious heirloom tomatoes.
Norwich Meadows baby artichokes
Lucky Dog has fennel (and French guinea hens!!).
Norwich has a few baby artichokes, many shelling and other beans. Oak Grove and Bodhitree have interesting peppers.  Sycamore has tasty zucchini bread, corn, and other produce.
Samascott strawberries and blueberries
 Las Delicias has wonderful pastries, both sweet and savory, and Hot Bread Kitchen has many kinds of bread, including various challahs, rolls, bialys, and other Middle Eastern breads.
Berried Treasures currants and other berries

To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/k3hzcbp

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Greengage plums at Red Jacket! Hot and sweet peppers at Eckerton, S&SO, Oak Grove! Chiogga beets at Paffenroth! Nectarines at Kernan.

Grapes and plums at Locust Grove. Peaches and other fruit at Caradonna. Mushrooms at Bulich and Madura. Squashes and beautiful heirloom tomatoes at Bodhitree, Stokes, Oak Grove, Eckerton, Keith, and others.

Tasty fruit syrups at Beth's Farm Kitchen. Try them over Ronnybrook's delicious ice cream! Have some Las Delicias brownies to go with them!

If you love peaches and nectarines as much as I do, you might want to get them this week. The appearance of grapes does indicate the imminent exit of stone fruit!

To see these and other stands and produce:   http://tinyurl.com/l86v2pd

Monday, September 1, 2014

Union Square Greenmarket is here today!

Who's here today -- from GrowNY:

Market Attendance for Mon, Sep 01 2014

Union Square Greenmarket, New York
Open year-round, 8 am - 6 pm, Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat

Who's in today

Apple State Hilltop Farm
Wild Flower & Apple Blossom Honey
Back to the Future Farm
Fresh Milk & Dairy
Body & Soul
Vegan Baked Goods. Gluten-free options
Bread Alone
Baked Goods. Cert/Organic Breads
Buon Pane Bakery
Baked Goods (foccacia)
Butterfield Dairy
Goat's Milk & Goat's Milk Products
Central Valley Dairy
Cow's Milk Cheeses & Value Added Products
Consider Bardwell
Pasture-raised Goat & Cow's Milk Cheeses
Dutchmill Garden
Cut Flowers
Eckerton Hill Farm
Heirloom Tomatoes
Fantasy Fruit Farm
TriStars Strawberries, Blueberries, Raspberries
General Cochran Farm
Formerly Hammond Dairy
Healthway Farms
Veggies, Orchard Fruit
Hudson Valley Duck
Whole, Parts & Cured Products
Lani's Farm
Veggies
Martin's Pretzels
Hand-rolled Hard Pretzels
Norwich Meadows Farm
Vegetables, Eggs & Halal Chicken
PE & DD Seafood
Fresh fish & Shellfish
Phillips Farm
Winter Veggies/Greens, Jams & Preserves, Fruit
Race Farm
Veggies/Orchard Fruit (Cider Vinegar)
Red Jacket Orchards
Fruit & Juices
Roaming Acres Ostrich
Emu & Ostrich Eggs. Pork, Bison & Ostrich Meat
Roxbury Mountain Maple
Maple Syrup & Maple Syrup Products
She Wolf Bakery
Miche in the morning, and sourdough fresh from the oven at noon.

Who's out today

Berkshire Berries
Raw Honey, NYC Rooftop Honey, Maple Syrup & Jams
Fantastic Gardens
Potted Plants & Herbs
Greener Pastures
Wheatgrass Plants & Juice, Micro green Shoots
Holy Schmitt's
Homemade Horseradish
Las Delicias
Baked Goods
Lavender by the Bay
Dried Lavender Sachets & Culinary
Madura Farm
Vegetables, Eggs & Cultivated Mushrooms
River Garden
Dried Flower Wreaths & Arrangements
Troncillito Farm
Orchard Fruit

Saturday, August 30, 2014

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 


Friday, August 29, 2014

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