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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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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We had a perfect late-summer day for last Thursday’s market: fresh and sun-dappled, with ample parking spots in town. Great Cape Baking Company did a brisk trade in apple cider doughnuts, now made fresh at their market stand and darned good with a cup of market-brewed coffee. You could scoop up organic cranberries, newly harvested from Falmouth bogs—a milestone in this town of ours—find fresh pasta in several interesting flavors and colors, pick up a fruit tart, buy crisp fennel, Jerusa...
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A recent Gourmets and Good Eaters article referred to the class on Lobster and Corn at Highfield  Hall given by Susan Ackell, a chef on our market team. Two of the recipes mentioned previously appeared in past market promos. Here they are again on our recipes page: Corn Fritters and Fresh Corn Chowder.

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Here’s the thing about farmers’ markets: they’re all about weather. The past weeks, hot and rainless, have been harder than usual on salad greens—so you mightn’t see as many delicate lettuces as you did last summer when rain, clouds and cool temperatures prevailed. On the other hand, all that sun we’ve had lately is ushering in corn season in a hurry. Don’t be surprised if you find the first ears of corn at our market this week; come prepared with a roomy bag.

Of course, our weat...
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