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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September is perhaps the sweetest month at the market. Summer produce is still coming in, and lettuces that suffered in the heat and drought are freshening up as evenings get cooler. Now the market brims with apples, squashes and plump pumpkins. Last Thursday Silverbrook Farm brought a basket of decorative gourds; they looked harlequinesque, for want of a better word - pear-shaped with big bold white and yellow stripes, with a little green-and-white stripy patch at their base. Our bakers have...
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Apples already! Boxes of early Macs and Galas at the market last week took us by surprise. This year’s growing season, fueled by abundant sunshine, is on fast forward. Some crops you’d expect to see in late summer or early fall are turning up sooner than usual. Other summer produce – peaches, blueberries and juicy, tender corn – may not be around too much longer. Savor them down to the very last bite. Note: In case you arrived too late to snag them last week, a few packets of coriande...
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