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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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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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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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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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’re hoping to see another first at this Thursday’s market: organic cranberries grown right here in Falmouth. Weather-permitting, the cranberries will be dry-picked at small town-owned bogs operated by Fred Bottomley. In addition, there’ll be sweetened dried cranberries (both organic and conventionally grown) and possibly fresh cranberries from Harwich. Bonnie Kavanagh will promote Rubies in the Sand, the cranberry cookbook she co-wrote with Fred Bottomley, which is also available at E...
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There are many ways to get to market. You can drive, and while school’s still out, park at the school parking lot near the library – Peg Noonan is but a stroll away. You can share a car with a neighbor or co-worker (this summer WHOI is encouraging ride-sharing to the market). You can hop on your bike; the Shining Sea bike path, longer and more beautiful than ever, makes it easy for many more people to pedal into town. You could even Whoosh to the market on the summer trolley, which stops ...
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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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