The cowbell will ring at noon on May 24 for our first market of the year -- and our fifth birthday! We will have more farm produce than ever, starter-plants for your garden, local cheeses, eggs and honey, fresh breads and pastries, hand-made chocolates, freshly roasted coffee and more. For a map and additional info, see falmouthfarmersmarket.org. For quick updates as we approach opening day, visit us on Facebook. See you on the 24th!

Falmouth Farmers' Market
Peg Noonan Park, Main Street, Falmo...
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What a swell finale we had to our season last Saturday.  Main Street looked festive. People were happy. The weather was unseasonably gorgeous. One customer, biking into town, arrived in shorts. As the tents came down to make way for carol-singers and the Holiday Stroll, last-minute shoppers were still stuffing cabbages and squash into their bags. Thus ended our fourth market season, our most lively year to date.

We are grateful to all who’ve helped the market, often in ways unseen but utterl...
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Our Holidays-By-The-Sea market (our grand finale for 2011) is this Saturday, December 3. Note hours: noon to 3 p.m. There will be hardy local vegetables like roots, squashes, cabbages and kales--not to mention sprightly produce grown in farmers’ greenhouses and polytunnels.  You’ll find your staple eggs, cheese, and bread. And—t’is the season--you’ll find many a deliciously local gift. Honey from Cape bees and beeswax candles. Cool jars of locally-picked pickled vegetables. Beach Pl...
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Please join us for Tuesday’s Thanksgiving market (11/22/11), the first of two holiday events. And please note our hours, 11 am - 3 pm, tailored to our shorter (yet busy) days. You’ll be reunited with many summer vendors, as well as E&T Farms who bring us their sought-after honey, beeswax candles and micro-greens each Thanksgiving. You might also discover something new – like Tender Morsels’ little cranberry tarts, almond rocher and French macarons—ooh la la! Here’s what we think w...
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Our two holiday fairs are upon us! See you at Peg Noonan Park.  (Please note the holiday markets are not being held on our regular Thursdays and have special hours.)

2011 Holiday Markets

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Time to really stock up on local fruits and vegetables…..this coming market will be the last of our regular Thursday gigs. Still to come, our two holiday markets. We return November 22, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, and Saturday December 3, the day before the Christmas parade. (Check The Falmouth Enterprise and www.falmouthfarmersmarket.org for details closer to the time.)

Buy Fresh Buy Local (www.buyfreshbuylocalcapecod.org) is organizing a Harvest Celebration on October 23, with tours...
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It’s the season for pumpkins, squashes and gourds. A Musque de Provence pumpkin, spotted at Silverbrook last week, was as shapely as a fairytale coach. Two enormous Blue Hubbard squashes, pale and plump with tapering goosenecks, looked almost birdlike, nesting together at Peachtree’s table. The larger of the two weighed in at 22 lbs. Last week also saw the first Cape cranberries of the season. Danielle Verzone – the creative talent behind Sirenetta -- brought chocolate owls made from co...
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Last week’s market had a drizzly start. So it was wonderful to see so many of you, umbrellas unfurled, spirits un-dampened, shopping at the market as usual. Those who braved the elements to arrive for the market’s opening were able to snap up peaches and raspberries – still available, though now in short supply. At one point the RTA bus pulled up and eight people hopped off, making a beeline for the market. A gold star to those of you who take the low-carbon route to town --arriving by ...
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More seasonal changes and celebrations. There should be plenty of colorful fall squashes at the market this week and maybe pumpkins. Fans of Jerusalem artichokes (a native plant) may want to check the baskets at Peachtree Circle’s table for the knobbly, nutty tubers.  Unusual eggplants will be featured at Lucky Field Organics, including a tiny, tender Japanese variety, and Artisan Bake Shop will tempt with apple pies and tartlets.  We hope to see Italian plums on Oakdale Farm's table.

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Our market operates rain or shine. And we had plenty of both last week. Buckets of rain as the market was getting started, fierce sun and heat in mid-afternoon. Wet raingear and soggy outerwear came off and people were back to wearing summer t-shirts. “It’s Florida,” beamed Tony Melli to one of his cheese customers. Then a northerly wind kicked up, and the outerwear (much of it still soggy) came on again. A day of seasonal changes.

There are lots of good purple and violet things at the m...
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Have you noticed how brown the trees look in parts of town? Irene was windy, windy enough to blow salt-spray onto trees, especially those close to shore. But Irene was also a dry storm. With little rain to wash away the salt, leaves turned dry and brown overnight. Even around Peg Noonan Park, some trees appear preternaturally autumnal. Yet at the market, summer produce still abounds. Make the most of it, and perhaps buy a little extra to freeze or preserve for the colder months. You can find ...
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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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Blueberries, are fruiting. And that means Foster Farms, which specializes in the berries, will be joining us for the high-summer season. Blueberries, along with cranberries, Concord grapes and beach plums, are native American fruits, and about as local as you can get. You’ll find boxes of the indigo berries and delicious things made with blueberries throughout the market. Our bakers will be offering blueberry pies and mini-pies. Weather-permitting, blueberry crullers will be made fresh at t...
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Corn has arrived at the market. And the first field tomatoes and heirlooms. You’ll find Emma’s new potatoes at Peachtree Circle Farm. There are blueberries galore! It’s summertime and that means two things. First, lots of fresh produce is available at the Falmouth Farmers’ Market. And second, American Farmland Trust is running its America’s Favorite Farmers Markets™  contest. Voting is a show of recognition for markets that work to bring fresh local food into the community, help p...
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The market is now in full swing, with more summer produce arriving each week. We should be seeing corn this week. Blueberries are scheduled to make an appearance, too. Dare we hope for the first sun-ripened field tomatoes? Much depends on weather! Here’s some of what you can expect this Thursday.

Corn.
Rhubarb, raspberries, blueberries, currants (red and white), strawberry vinegar.
English shelling peas, sugar snaps, snow peas, organic pea tendrils, string beans.
Loose field greens, arugula, sp...
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The market was packed last week. A long holiday weekend and nice weather brought people in droves, and there was greater choice than ever.  Except for strawberries. Strawberry fields are not forever. Strawberries ran out sooner than expected, but red raspberries took their place, a lovely surprise. Down To the Ground Coffee returned with new beans to savor. Pies à la Mode opened its market outpost with their famous chicken pot pies, fruit tarts, and new frosty treats, including ice-cream san...
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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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The first strawberries arrived at the market last Thursday, and they smelled heavenly. You had only to stand in front of the boxes of strawberries, inhale deeply, and all was right in the world again. There were peonies, too, the size of small cabbages, some white, some deep pink--the pinks so fragrant they practically begged you to take them home. Last week was also the ...
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After last year’s dismal spring (one of the most difficult growing seasons on record, grumbled one of our farmers) the summer of 2010 is off to a precociously sunny start. Spring greens of all sorts were heaped high on the tables at last week’s market and flowers were everywhere - chive flowers for the salad bowl from Lucky Field Organics, colorful bouquets from Peach...
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Please join us! Our cowbell will sound at noon, ringing in another season, which starts a little earlier this year—just in time for you to do your shopping for the busy Memorial Day weekend. Our market specializes in farm produce from the Cape and Southeastern Massachusetts, fresh and smoked seafood, cheeses from Westport and Marion, and breads and pies made by local ba...
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