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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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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Peachtree Circle Farm in Sippewissett grows wonderful hard-neck garlic. And unlike some of us unruly garlic growers, who soon lose track of what kinds we planted, Carrie Richter and Heidi Walz keep note of which variety is which. At last week’s market they were selling half a dozen different kinds: Northern Whites, Russian Red, Siberian, Broadleaf Czech, Chesnok Red and a big-seller, Georgian Fire. “Garlic lovers seem to like the word fire,” said Carrie. Indelible pens were on hand to i...
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