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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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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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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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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