Family reunions, fireworks, ice cream, backyard cook-outs and picnics at the beach--are you ready for the Fourth? The market will get you in a festive mood. You can pick up cheeses, pickles and sauces, smoked ribs for the barbecue, grass-fed beef, crisp lettuce and cucumber from the field and tomatoes grown in local greenhouses. Pain d’Avignon will have plenty of hamburger buns and hot dog rolls. Coastal Vineyards will offer a variety of white wines made from grapes cultivated on their eigh...
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Is summer finally with us? 

A girl was at the market last Thursday, with pigtails and a blue top that matched her eyes. She had strawberry stains all over her face--and a smile as wide as a frying pan.

We are promised another feast of strawberries this week. Come prepared with containers to safely ferry them home. There will be snap peas, probably string beans and shelling peas. There will be lunchtime snacks, including tasty sandwiches at Pain d’Avignon and empanadas at The Artisan Bake Sh...
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To Market, To Market is a new book that tells the story of a boy accompanying his mother to shop for honey, kale, cheese and other foods often sold at farmers’ markets – and then recounts how each is grown or made. This Thursday Eight Cousins bookstore promises to bring this distinctive children’s book and its author, Nikki McClure, to our market’s spot at Peg Noonan Park for a reading and book-signing (from 11 a.m. or so to 12.30, as the market sets up for its usual noon business.) T...
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It’s the season for local strawberries, the first sweet taste of summer. And big, sweet-smelling peonies, the size of small cabbages—the market’s show-stoppers last week. And, right now, there’s a huge proliferation of fresh-picked lettuces – green, or speckled with purple, ruffled or oak-leaf-shaped  -- as well as other vibrant spring greens and vegetables. This week Tina’s Terrific Plants will be featuring watermelons and cantaloupes suitable for growing in our area. Cantaloupe ...
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We had a grand time at the opening of our fourth season last week. A happy crowd showed up. The sun made an appearance. There were spring greens of all sorts, of course, and delicious asparagus, eggs (white, brown and blue-green) and red radishes and rhubarb. With a little more sunshine, we may see the first strawberries soon, if not this week, then maybe next. If rhubarb is still around, think pie.

As you may have noticed, this year’s market is more diverse, and more organic, in its offerin...
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