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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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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