It’s goodbye Irene, hello school, and…. Labor day in less than a week: a perfect storm of late summer events. Lives have been blown a little off course by Irene, including the lives of our weather-dependant farmers, and hard-working cheese-makers and bakers. By Thursday, we hope, power, communications, and good spirits will be restored to one and all, and everyone will be ready—perhaps more than ready-- for the last big weekend of the summer. Here’s what we think we might see at the m...
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Tomatoes are finally coming in strong, with all sorts of heirlooms, cherries and plump field tomatoes on luscious display. Bring a box, if possible, to transport them home without bruising them (a good market tip for any ripe fruit.) Make the most of fresh tomatoes while they are at their summery peak. Or pick up a beautiful jar of Da Silva’s preserved tomatoes--summer captured in a bottle--for a rainy day. Here’s what we’re expecting this week.

• Ripe field tomatoes, sungolds, mixed cherr...

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Last week was National Farmers Market Week. If you were watching this space it may have passed you by – our promo encountered printing problems, and didn’t appear—but you can check our website for the previous week’s news and recipe (guacamole loco.)

Last Thursday Dan and Sandy unveiled their family’s canned and pickled vegetables, grown at Da Silva Farm in Teaticket. There were dilly beans and sweet pickles, garlic dill pickles and mixed tomatoes, everything tucked into glass canni...
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Did you spot Emma’s impressively fat garlic bulbs last Thursday? Her garlic, called Music, is a new variety planted this year at Peachtree Circle Farm in Sippewissett, which is run by Carrie Richter. Emma and her mother have been tending a plot there, and brought not only Music, but baskets of tender baby new potatoes to market in the past few weeks. Last Thursday also brought good news about Long Lane Farm’s Portuguese-style creamy goat’s cheese. Allen, the cheese-maker, just out of ho...
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Dan Silva and his wife Sandy have a small farm in Teaticket. They keep two goats, Brownie and Gertrude, that supply their family with fresh milk, four proud, territorial roosters, and a harem of some 300 egg-laying hens, scratching in the dirt. The birds and goats were busy polishing off a neighbor’s vegetable scraps on a recent visit. Da Silva Farm supplies eggs to Amber Waves, Bean and Cod, and to local farmers’ markets, including ours. You’ll sometimes find eggs at Silverbrook and Oa...
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