Time to really stock up on local fruits and vegetables…..this coming market will be the last of our regular Thursday gigs. Still to come, our two holiday markets. We return November 22, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, and Saturday December 3, the day before the Christmas parade. (Check The Falmouth Enterprise and www.falmouthfarmersmarket.org for details closer to the time.)

Buy Fresh Buy Local (www.buyfreshbuylocalcapecod.org) is organizing a Harvest Celebration on October 23, with tours...
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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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Beautiful ripe juicy tomatoes are arriving at the market. You’ll find properly plump red tomatoes, cartons of cherry tomatoes in many colors, and evocatively-named heirloom varieties, such as Striped Germans, Cherokees and Green Zebras. And then there are the little husk tomatoes that go under various names such as pineapple tomatillos or strawberry tomatillos. They look like tan-colored little papery lanterns, and at first glance, they don’t look like anything much at all. But open the h...
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