To anyone interested in the future of the Union Square Greenmarket, see the letter written by Adrian Benepe, then the Borough Commissioner of New York, on the subject.Good luck is being 2 blocks from the Union Square Greenmarket. I plan to report on greenmarket news in general, and new arrivals in particular as often as I can.
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Saturday, December 29, 2012 Many stands are gone for the winter, but many are here, too!
Stokes and others are gone for the winter, and some stands like Quattro's are taking the day off, but many are here as well. You'll find Violet Hill, Flying Pig, Miglorelli, Ronnybrook, Cato Corner cheeses, Ardith Mae cheeses, Paffenroth produce, Windfall specialty greens, Mountain Sweet Berry potatoes, Caradonna, Locust Grove, and Breezy Hill apples and pears, Ronnybrook and Grazin' Acres milks and creams, and other stands. You can buy beautiful roses at Rose Meadow and sweet cherry tomatoes at Shushan, as well as herbs and greens.
Check this URL for these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/d2jlmh5
Saturday, December 22, 2012 Last Day Until Spring For Lani, Stokes, Cherry Lane, Gorzynski!! To see which stands are here today, check out this URL:
http://tinyurl.com/d77vzl2
Chateau Renaissance vinegars are excellent -- not too acidy and with good flavor. Stokes uses their vinegar for their herb flavored variety. Both are great gift items. Beth's Farm Kitchen, Lavender By the Bay, Rick's Picks, Oak Grove's dried pepper branches, and others have good gift options as well.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Cauliflower! Winter Squashes! Braising Greens! Mushrooms! Celeriac! There are plenty of gift options in the market today, including pickles, jams, chutneys, and lavender items. Here with interesting produce: Stokes, Paffenroth, S&SO, Madura, Bodhitree, Tamarack, Rogowski, Windfall, and others. Locust Grove, Caradonna, Breezy Hill, and others have apples, pears, ciders, and pastries. Tamarack, Blue Moon, Garden of Spices, Hudson Valley Duck Farm, Roaming Acres, and others have various protein items, and Mountain Sweet Berry, Bodhitree, S&SO,and others have many sizes and kinds of potato. Madura and Bulich have several kinds of mushroom and S&SO, Rogowsky, Caradonna, and others have good looking winter squashes, including butternut, hubbard, and some unique new varieties.
Saturday, December 15, 2012 Gorzynski, Lani, Paffenroth, Norwich, S&SO, Miglorelli, Oak Grove, Keith, Cherry Lane, and Windfall all have all kinds of winter vegetables and greens. Northshire has various vegetables and eggs and Quattro's, Violet Hill, Flying Pig, and others have delicious meats and/or poultry. Caradonna, Breezy Hill, Locust Grove, and others have apples, pears, and cider. Breezy Hill also has fresh cranberries. Shushan has sweet hydroponic cherry tomatoes, herbs, and other hydroponic vegetables. Mountain Sweet Berry has crosnes, tiny potatoes, and beautiful Christmas decorations. Stokes has a wide variety of good looking produce, including their excellent red skinned potatoes, beets, greens, and herb wreaths for gifts.
S&SO has pickled vegetables and flavored salts, Beth's Farm Kitchen has pickles, chutneys, jams, sauces, and mustards wrapped and unwrapped for gifts, and Stokes has delicious herb flavored vinegars.
To see these and other stands and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/cefrdnr
Friday, December 14, 2012 In the lead up to winter holidays, one of the major kinds of item available in the Greenmarket is gifts, and they're unique, often tasty, decorative, or all of the above. Mountain Sweet Berry and others have beautiful wreaths, Rick's Picks is here with all kinds of pickled vegetables, and Beth's Farm Kitchen has jams, chutneys, sauces, mustards, and other goodies beautifully wrapped for gifts.Samascott and others have jams as well, and River Garden has unusual dried flower arrangements and wreaths.
Las Delicias has lovely tarts, muffins, cookies, and other pastries, and Hammond has several kinds of yogurt. Bobolink is here with breads and cheeses and Consider Bardwell has veal and goat meat as well as several cheeses and cheese chips. Roaming Acres has beef, pork, bison, and ostrich meat. Norwich, Oak Grove, Samascott, Miglorelli, Rogowski, and Bodhitree are here with root vegetables, squashes, pumpkins, and greens. To see these and other stands:
http://tinyurl.com/c6e5tm5
Saturday, December 8, 2012 Christmas Decorations! Gifts! Cranberries!!
It's a potato-lover's paradise today, with Stokes's fabulous red-skinned potatoes, garlic, and rosemary for a great dish, Cherry Lane's lovely sweet potatoes, Paffenroth's extensive selection of many varieties and uses, and Mountain Sweet Berry's small European styles. You'll be equally happy with the many types of gourds and squashes at S&SO, as well as pumpkins like the cheese pumpkins at Oak Grove or the unusual squashes at Hoeffner's stand.
There are excellent gift ideas at Beth's Farm Kitchen, S&SO, and River Garden, as well as Stokes's tasty herb-flavored vinegar. Oak Grove and Eckerton both have bunches of hot peppers for gifts, and other stands have good ideas as well.
Cayuga is here with interesting pastas, but doesn't have their excellent breads today. Locust Grove, Caradonna, Breezy Hill, and others have apples. Breezy Hil has brought in hard cider and cherry liqueur (another gift idea) as well as apples, pears, and pastries.
To see these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/ag5cwd5
Friday, December 7, 2012 It's a grim drizzly day, but the Greenmarket is colorful and welcoming, with flowers, jams, Christmas decorations and gifts, and tasty pastries. Try Las Delicias's big and small fruit galettes, Flying Pig's sausages, chickens, and pork products, Beth's Farm Kitchen's ketchup, sauces, mustards, and jams, and Mountain Sweet Berry's beautiful wreaths. River Garden is here with pretty dried flowers and Rose Meadow has the first big selection of anemones, as well as lovely roses. Roaming Acres has bison, pork, and beef in addition to ostrich meat, and Norwich Meadows and Rogowsky have great root vegetables and greens.
Samascott and Oak Grove also have great root vegetables and pumpkins and Samascott and others have cider. Oak Grove also has colorful hot peppers. Mountain Sweet Berry has small potatoes and crosnes, and Treelicious has apples and vegetables. Queens County Farm Museum and Muddy River also have greens and root vegetables, and Madura has several kinds of mushroom.
To see these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/bhzvdap
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Christmas Decorations, Crosnes, Cranberries!
Potatoes of all shapes and sizes and kinds are available all over the Greenmarket, with some interesting varieties to be found at Mountain Sweet Berry, Bodhitree, and Paffenroth. Turnips and all sorts of radishes, including watermelon radishes and black radishes, are to be found at Windfall, along with many sizes and kinds of greens. Breezy Hill has fresh cranberries and Bulich has several delicious mushroom varieties.
New at Beth's Farm Kitchen -- mustards, salad and other dressings, as well as their wide choice of jams, jellies, and chutneys. Locust Grove has quinces as well as apples and pears, and Caradonna, Breezy Hill, Locust, and others have apple cider. Rogowsky, Keith, and S&SO have all sorts of produce, and Hudson Valley Duck Farm is here with duck parts, rillettes, and other duck products. Roaming Acres has beef, Berkshire pork, and ostrich meat. Two Guys and Shushan have hydroponic greens and herbs and Shushan has their addictive cherry tomatoes and herbs.
To see these and other stands, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/aulo7mb
Saturday, December 1, 2012 Potatoes, Christmas Decorations and Gifts, Cranberries!!
We're at that time of the year when I have to look hard to find news. Other than Mountain Sweet Berries' crosnes, Breezy Hill's cranberries, and gift ideas from Beth's Farm Kitchen, S&SO, Deep Mountain Maple, and such, it's hard to discover much. Still, I have to say that Quattro's poultry, Violet Hill's Belle Rouge chickens and pork, Flying Pig's sausage and pork cuts, and Northshire's greens are great and worth the visit. S&SO and Paffenroth have a wide variety of produce, as does Miglorelli, and Quattro's, Violet Hill, Northshire, and others have tasty fresh eggs.
Keith has root vegetables and greens, as well as Christmas trees, and Van Houten, Mountain Sweet Berry, and others have trees and other decorations as well. To see who is here and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/c77y67l
Friday, November 30, 2012 Berried Treasures Last Day until April!
Roaming Acres has pork, beef, and ostrich meat today. Consider Bardwell has veal and goat. Pura Vida has beautiful fresh fish.
Berried Treasures has lovely potatoes and Christmas decorations, as well as several dried bean varieties. Las Delicias has delicious pastries, including caneles, rustic fruit tarts both large and small, and amazing cookies and small chocolate "brownies". Norwich Meadows, Miglorelli, and Bodhitree all have greens, root vegetables, and other vegetables, and Two Guys have hydroponic lettuces, other greens, and minigreens.
To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/d4tl2qu
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Berried Treasures Last Wednesday. Friday is Berried Treasures Last Until Next Spring!
See this link for who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/bwrngjt
Franca says she's closing down after Friday until next year. Today she has several kinds of dried beans, autumn decorations, and wonderful potatoes.
Rose Meadow has beautiful roses and Lavender By The Bay is here today as well. Hudson Valley Duck Farm is here with tasty rillettes, ducks and duck parts, and Tamarack has great pork cuts as well as good vegetables. Paffenroth, S&SO, Madura, and other farms have delicious root vegetables, and Madura and Bulich have tasty mushroom varieties. Mountain Sweet Berry, Paffenroth, S&SO, Stokes, and others have lovely potato varieties. Mountain Sweet Berry also has crosnes and Christmas decorations.
Breezy Hill has interesting hard cider, spirits, and cider in addition to FRESH CRANBERRIES!!! Beth's Farm Kitchen, Lavender By The Sea, Tweefontain, Three Corner Field Farm, and others have great gift options.
Saturday, November 24, 2012 What I Bought Today and Other Beautiful Produce
I love Hudson Valley Duck Farm's Rillettes, so I bought some to replace the succulent appetizer I bought on Wednesday. I stopped at Stokes and picked up some red jacket small potatoes with rosemary and mixed bunches of cut herbs (they were so good in my capon -- I'm going to have them with a chicken next Saturday). Ronnybrook didn't forget their terrific garlic butter today, so I bought some to store for Christmas.
Among the absent: Cherry Lane, Quattro's. But check this out to see who's here: http://tinyurl.com/bv5klu7
Wednesday, November 21, 2012 Union Square Greenmarket Today, November 21, 2012 Note from Greenmarket:
THANKSGIVING MARKET! Wednesday, November 21st: The Union Square Greenmarket will be located in the North and West sides of Union Square Park (17th St & Union Square West). See the Market Layout Map at http://greenmarketstuff.blogspot.com
2012 scheduled changes: the market will be closed Friday 11/23/12. WIC and FMNP checks accepted at farmer stands EBT/Food Stamps accepted at the market info tent
Health Bucks now available - for every $5 spent in EBT, customers receive a $2 Health Buck coupon to purchase additional fruits and vegetables.
To see who's here today:
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 Bulletin!!! NY Times article announces return of Greenmarket to Union Square this week!! http://tinyurl.com/abfqz9k From Greenmarket: MARKET UPDATE! Due to limited space at Madison Sq, we've been granted partial access to Union Sq's north plaza for tomorrow, Wed 11/14. The farms you regularly find above 16th St on Wed's (Ronnybrook, Stokes, Migliorelli, Hawthorne, etc) will be there tomorrow at Union Sq. The remainder of our farms will be at Madison Sq for one more day.
We will have the full market back by this Friday, Nov 16. Thank you everyone for your patience, and for continuing to support small family farms. See you out there!
View a version of the Wednesday map here: http://www.grownyc.org/images/gmkt/madsq1114.pdf
Saturday, November 10, 2012, 2012 It looks as if all of our Greenmarket Saturday stands are here in Madison Square Park!! The stands are spread all over around the park and it looked as if a few are on Broadway below 23rd Street. Check out this URL for most of the stands that are in Madison Square: http://tinyurl.com/b2ehvhh (I went back just now at the Gmarket at Madison Square and saw Nemeth, Mountain Sweet Berry, Norwich Meadows, D'Attolico, and a few others I missed earlier.)
Friday, November 9, 2012, 2012 REALLY?? THEY CAN'T FIND ANOTHER PARKING LOT FOR THE TRUCKS?
I was shocked to hear that the Christmas market will open next week but that the Farmers may still be displaced to Madison Square. Surely now that it is colder the trucks could be moved to school yards like the one on Greenwich Ave for PS 41 or the one in the 20's on Second Avenue. The people who came to help us are wonderful, but the farmers who came to Union Square the week after 9/11 were and are wonderful too. Anyone with a memory bigger than that of a gnat will remember that during a horrific time after the terror attack these people came, fed New Yorkers (some, like Windfall, for free), and gave us our courage back just by struggling into the city and giving us a feeling of normalcy.
To see who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/b69bbk9
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 2012 BULLETIN: This week's Friday and Saturday Greenmarkets will be at Madison Square Park!!
Friday's stands will be on the Broadway side of the Park:
The usual Friday stands are expected to be on the West side of Madison Square Park.Stands should include:Muddy River, Prospect Hill Orchard, Eve's Cidery, Las Delicias, Deep Mt. Maple, Body n Soul, Oak Grove, Miglorelli, River Garden, Berried Treasures, Dancing Ewe, Hammond Dairy, Lucky Dog, Two Guys, Roaming Acres Ostrich, Samascott, Norwich Meadows, Madura, Tremblay, and others.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 UNION SQUARE GREENMARKET WILL BE AT MADISON SQUARE PARK ON WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7 Windfall Farms tweeted: We're back in Madison Square Park again on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who came out on Saturday. Hope to see you all tomorrow. BULLETIN FROM STOKES FARM: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Bulletin From Stokes Farm "Due to the poor weather predicted for Wednesday, November 7th, Stokes Farm will NOT be at the relocated Union Square Greenmarket at Madison Square Park. We will post updates on our Thursday and Saturday market attendance as soon as possible."
Monday, November 5, 2012 Monday Market is at Madison Square Park today.
Sunday, November 4, 2012 The Stuyvesant Town Greenmarket will be joining the Tompkins Square Greenmarket at E.7th and Avenue A on Sunday, November 4th. This amazing mega market will be open from 8am until 6pm. EBT/Food Stamps/Debit/Credit, and WIC & FMNP checks accepted.
Saturday, October 27, 2012 It's definitely pepper day in the Greenmarket. In addition to Eckerton and Oak Grove, several stands have peppers, both decorative and edible, including James Durr! Stokes and Cherry Lane have good looking heirloom tomatoes, and Buzzard Crest is here (and for a couple more weekends, they hope) with tasty grapes and grape juices. Lani has PEANUTS!! Try their boiled peanuts -- so good! Norwich and Lani have great beans -- many sorts -- and many stands including Sycamore, Van Houten, and Stokes have delicious cauliflowers, broccolis, and squashes. Sycamore has MANY pumpkins, as do S&SO, Hodgson, and Hoeffner.
Gorzynski has lovely salad greens, fresh dug potatoes, and other good organic produce, and D'Attolico has sprouts, greens, and other items. Flying Pig has pork and poultry, Violet Hill has pork products, Belle Rouge Chickens, and wild mushrooms as well as eggs. Northshire has eggs, greens, squashes, and various other produce, and Quattro's has eggs, poultry, venison, and sausages. To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/9zgrd2o
Friday, October 26, 2012 PUMPKINS!! Black and watermelon radishes! Brussels sprouts!
Roaming Acres has ostrich and pork meat. Pura Vida is here with beautiful fish and shellfish. La Delicias has a new small sized apple galette, the first candelas of the season, and many other delicious pastries and cookies.
Today is DUTCHMILL'S LAST DAY of the season. They'll be back in the Spring with lovely tulips. River Garden is here with dried flowers and bouquets.
Bodhitree and Norwich Meadows have gorgeous produce, including all kinds of beans, radishes, squashes, greens, and herbs, and Norwich has heirloom tomatoes, as does Berried Treasures. Sycamore has gorgeous broccoli!
Dancing Ewe has cheeses and sausages and Finnish Ruis is here with black breads. Hot Bread Kitchen has their delicious raisin challah as well as many other regional baked goods.
To see these and other stands and products, click here:
http://tinyurl.com/cxv445t
Wednesday, October 24, 2012 PEPPERS HOT AND SWEET!! BLACK RADISHES! BLACK WALNUTS AT PAFFENROTH!
Grenadan peppers,Agra dulce peppers and Cardoons at Eckerton. Surprisingly delicious late season heirloom tomatoes at Cherry Lane along with their excellent sweet potatoes. Unique sweet potatoes at Bodhitree! Gorgeous hot and sweet peppers at Oak Grove, along with apples, pumpkins, and all kinds of squashes. Delicious broccoli and many sizes of pumpkin at Sycamore! To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/9xrzgd2
Saturday, October 20, 2012 Wild ginseng at Mountain Sweet Berry and Violet Hill. Wild chantereelles at Violet Hill. Pumpkins everywhere! 9J and Cheerful Cherry are gone for the season, but most stands are planning to be here at least until Thanksgiving.
There are still heirloom tomatoes at Oak Grove, Stokes, Norwich Meadows, and others, and plenty of beans of all sorts at Norwich and Lani. Great peppers both hot and sweet are to be found at Eckerton and Oak Grove, as well as S&SO and D'Attolico. Beautiful lettuces are here at Gorzynski, Stokes, and Keith. Excellent potato choices are to be found at Paffenroth, Mountain Sweet Berry, and others. Northshire has beautiful produce , eggs, and other products.
Cayuga has great breads, grains, flours, beans, and pastas made with their flours, and Flying Pig has tasty pork and chicken. Violet Hill has Belle Rouge Chickens and various pork cuts and sausages, and Quattro's has wonderful poultry (ducks, chickens, pheasants, etc.) in addition to poultry cuts and products and eggs.
PE&DD has a wide variety of fish, shellfish, and seafood products and Seatuck has gorgeous scallops, fish, and shellfish.
Buzzard Crest is here with delicious grapes and grape juices.
To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/95uzgdq
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 Grenadan flavoring peppers at Eckerton! Bags of Rocambole Garlic at Keith's! Fresh Ginger at Windfall Farms! Concord Grapes at Caradonna! Cardoons at Eckerton!!
Cherry Lane and Stokes have tasty heirloom tomatoes. Sycamore has beautiful broccoli and Windfall has purple topped turnips in many sizes. Mountain Sweet Berry has unusual greens and Paffenroth, Keith, Gorzynski, and others have gorgeous braising greens. Tamarack is here with unusual heirloom tomatoes, greens, and other lovely produce as well as meats and poultry, and Hot Bread Kitchen has many kinds of breads and other baked goods.
Cherry Lane, Bodhitree, and others have great looking sweet potatoes and Stokes has their excellent small red jacket and yukon golds. Mountain Sweet Berry and Berried Treasures have excellent small European potato varieties. Oak Grove has many hot and sweet pepper varieties, as well as tomatillos and other unique produce, pork, and beef.
Blue Moon is here with beautiful fish and seafood and Hudson Valley Duck Farm has rillettes, ducks, and other duck products. Rose Meadow is here, but Dutchmill and River Garden are gone, perhaps for the year.
To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/cwfj49q
Saturday, October 13, 2012 Windfall has fresh GINGER!! Violet Hill has beautiful WILD MUSHROOMS!!Sycamore is going to have pumpkin carving at their stand today!
Pumpkins are everywhere in all sizes! Breezy Hill has their tasty Russet apples and various other apples and pears. Sycamore has gorgeous broccoli and Van Houten has beautiful white and orange cauliflower. Stokes, Norwich, and Oak Grove have good-looking heirloom tomatoes, and many stands, including Locust Grove, Terhune, Caradonna, and others have apples and pears. Buzzard Crest has seeded and seedless grapes, white and red grape juice, and wines.
Violet Hill has Belle Rouge chickens, pork cuts, sausages, and bacon, as well as chicken eggs, mushrooms, and ginseng. Northshire has beautiful Italian greens, peppers, and eggs. Paffenroth has delicious looking celeriac, leeks, all kinds of potatoes, onions, herbs, and carrots. Miglorelli also has a wide variety of produce, as does S&SO, and Norwich has many kinds of beans and other vegetables.
Windfall has FRESH GINGER! Eckerton has CHESTNUTS and many kinds of small peppers, and Oak Grove has a wide selection of hot peppers. To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/8oneb4y
Saturday, October 6, 2012 As predicted, Cheerful Cherry's last day has arrived. Drop by to pick up their delicious canadice jelly and other preserves, hot peppers, and succulent plants.
Welcome back Shushan with their sweet cherry tomatoes and hydroponic herbs. There are still good looking heirloom tomatoes to be had at Norwich, Stokes, Oak Grove, Lani, and other stands, and Eckerton has tasty looking small tomatoes, a wide variety of hot peppers, as well as chestnuts. Oak Grove also has wonderful hot and sweet pepper varieties, tomatillos, and pepper bunches for drying.
I got in my Thanksgiving capon order at Quattro's, as well as pheasant sausage stuffing. They have all sorts of poultry, their delicious soups, sausages, and excellent eggs. Violet Hill is here with amazing wild mushrooms, pork products, Belle Rouge chickens, and various eggs.
Sycamore has gorgeous (not a word I usually use for this) broccoli, sweet peppers, and other produce, and won't have a second delivery of corn today. Mountain Sweet Berry has sucrine lettuces, tiny potatoes, and other interesting produce, and Windfall has sweet tiny tomatoes, summer squashes, and many greens. Paffenroth has many kinds of carrot and other delicious root vegetables, and Norwich Meadows has a wide selection of shelling and pole beans.
To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/8ksj9sl
Friday, October 5, 2012 There's been a warning for a 33 degree weekend in Cheerful's area, so catch them today or tomorrow to get their heirloom tomatoes and grapes -- it could be your last chance of the season. Other stands with good looking heirloom tomatoes: Norwich Meadows, Samascott, Oak Grove, Bodhitree.
Green salads and braising greens (Tuscan Kale, etc.) are available at Bodhitree, Queens County Farm Museum, Norwich Meadows, Miglorelli. Several farms including Sycamore and others have tasty cauliflower and Broccoli, and many many stands have winter squashes, including Van Houten, Oak Grove, Bodhitree, and others. There are pumpkins all over the market.
Today is Roaming Acres day for pork, ostrich, and other meat, and Sun Raised Beef and Flying Pig are here as well. Hot Bread Kitchen and Our Daily Bread are here with breads and Las Delicias has gorgeous fruit tarts and other delicious pastries and cookies. Consider Bardwell and other cheeses are here, along with Dancing Ewe's Italian varieties.
To see these and other stands and products: http://tinyurl.com/92pdh7s
Saturday, September 29, 2012 Chestnuts! Grapes from Buzzard Crest, Cheerful Cherry, and others! Cranberry Beans!
Eckerton has chestnuts and many kinds of peppers. There are heirloom tomatoes in the market, but there are fewer varieties and some stands have only small and cherry types. Gorzynski has beautiful organic lettuces and other vegetables, and Paffenroth has great looking leeks, carrots, potatoes, and other delicious produce. Northshire has excellent Tuscan and other kale and peppers, and Stokes, Cherry Lane, and Cheerful Cherry have great sauce and other tomatoes.
Buzzard Crest had a deservedly long line when I passed them about half an hour ago, with eager grape and grape juice fans and wine lovers patiently waiting. Cheerful Cherry has good looking concord grapes and tasty grape and other jellies. Oak Grove has many kinds of sweet and hot peppers, heirloom tomatoes, and all kinds of winter squashes. Oak Grove and Cayuga have interesting flours and Cayuga has great breads made from their flours.
Seatuck and PE&DD are here with fresh fish and seafood and Flying Pig and Violet Hill have pork products. Violet Hill also has their tasty chickens and Quattro's has all sorts of poultry and poultry products as well as soups, venison, and sausages.
Nemeth has spray-free apples as well as baked goods. Caradonna, Terhune, Breezy Hill, and others have apples and pears, and you should check Locust Grove for quinces as well as apples, pears, and grapes.
To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/8fogjkv
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 It's definitely tipping over into Fall, but there are still some heirloom tomatoes, haricots verts, and salad greens as well as summer squash and blossoms. There are even some peaches and plums!
Locust Grove has QUINCES!! Eckerton has CHESTNUTS!! Tamarack has PURPLE BROCCOLI/CAULIFLOWER! Berried Treasures has beautiful SORREL and Eckerton and Oak Grove have many kinds of sweet and hot peppers! Paffenroth has EDAMAME and Bodhitree has their delicious SWEET POTATOES. Several stands have gorgeous EGGPLANTS, including Tamarack and Bodhitree.
APPLES AND PEARS have taken over, although there are peaches and plums to be found at Caradonna and Locust Grove.
To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/9bketa8
Friday, September 21, 2012 Pumpkins and gourds are taking over! Grapes at Cheerful Cherry! Heirloom tomato supply shrinking at a few stands, still generous at Norwich, Oak Grove, Bodhitree, and others!
I ate my way through a jar of Cheerful Cherry's Canadice grape jelly, so had to buy another today! Picked up a delicious raisin challah from Hot Bread Kitchen, scented violet roses from Rose Meadow, beautiful purple and white gladiolas from Dutchmill, Indigo Rose tomatoes from Norwich Meadows, and a couple of beautiful heirloom tomatoes from Oak Grove. For dessert, I'm going to have a selection of Las Delicias pastry and cookies.
To see these and other stands and produce:
http://tinyurl.com/d4khoad
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Bulletin! Eckerton has chestnuts!!
New crop apples at Terhune, Locust Grove, Breezy Hill, Miglorelli, Caradonna, and others. Heirloom tomatoes are available at Sycamore, Stokes, Bodhitree, Berried Treasures, Oak Grove, Eckerton, Cherry Lane, and others. Pumpkins and winter squashes are here at Rogowski, Oak Grove, S&SO, and many other stands. Stokes has good looking lettuces and cut herbs and S&SO and Paffenroth have many kinds of interesting potato varieties. Paffenroth has many varieties of carrots, beets, and other root vegetables and greens and Oak Grove and Eckerton have several types of hot peppers. Sycamore and others have sweet peppers and S&SO, Bodhitree, and Paffenroth have tasty greens.
We're definitely moving towards the end of summer vegetables, but Berried Treasures and Bodhitree still have great beans and Stokes and others have summer squashes. Windfall has beauties in all sizes.
To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/9oqjgpe
Saturday, September 15, 2012 PUMPKINS!!!at Stokes, Oak Grove, and many other stands. GRAPES!!! at Buzzard Crest, Cheerful Cherry, and others.
The season is definitely changing, but there are still many summer vegetables here, including many stands with heirloom tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, and corn. Eckerton, Cheerful Cherry, Cherry Lane, Norwich Meadows, Stokes, Oak Grove, Sycamore, and others have wide varieties of heirlooms, field tomatoes, and peppers.
Cato Corner has wonderful cheeses, including the last of the tasty Abondance, and the unusual Vivace Bambino and Dairyaire. Buzzard Crest has many delicious grape varieties, juices, and wines, and Cheerful Cherry has tasty grape and other preserves.
Eckerton and Oak Grove both have many hot pepper varieties, with almost no duplications! Hoeffner and others have good looking sweet peppers.
Cayuga has a new product, artisanal pastas, as well as beans, flours, and breads made from their flours by Orwashers.
To see these and other stands and produce, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/9kvgrvj
Friday, September 14, 2012 La Delicias challah, three new kinds of "roses" (rose shaped muffins)! Gorgeous heirloom tomatoes everywhere! BUT -- Van Houten has PUMPKINS --big ones! and Treelicious and Cheerful Cherry have many kinds of GRAPES! So, say hello to Fall.
Dutchmill has good-looking cockscombs, as do River Garden, Rose Meadow, and Oak Grove. Lots of fall flowers here today.
Peaches are more or less out of the picture, but Samascott has new crop apples, as do other stands, and there are pears and other autumn fruits to be had.
Dancing Ewe has the last of their pecorino tartuffo and pecorino alle Vinace today. They are expecting to be here with other cheese and sausages until the end of October. Beth's Farm Kitchen has fig and other unusual jams.
Las Delicias has many kinds of delicious pastry as well as savory tarts today. Finnish Ruis breads are here as well, with dark breads great with cheese. Consider Bardwell has luscious cheeses today.
Bodhitree, Norwich Meadows, Oak Grove, and Berried Treasures are here with delicious produce, and Madura has several good looking mushrooms. Roaming Acres has beef, pork, and ostrich cuts, and ostrich and emu eggs.
To see these and other stands and produce, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/8vsf44v
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Grapes and pumpkins, fewer stands with peaches, several stands with winter squash! You know the season is changing. There are plenty of heirloom and other tomatoes in the market, but it's really time to think about (and proceed to) canning or freezing for the winter. Corn also is nearing an end point, although there are still several stands with good ears. Another sign of change is the number of stands with hot and sweet peppers -- you can freeze some varieties for the winter. I also scrape a few ears of corn for freezing.
I know what I'm going to be doing! San Marzano tomatoes from Cherry Lane, Polish and other large plum tomatoes from Stokes, Bodhitree, and Cheerful Cherry(on Friday and Saturday), orange Thai hot peppers and Trinidadian flavoring peppers from Eckerton for the freezer, shelling beans from Berried Treasures for the freezer, and cut herbs from Stokes and S&SO to dry.
To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/8rcmx8c
Saturday, September 8, 2012 Pawpaws at Eckerton! Second delivery corn coming in at 11 AM! at Sycamore!! Buzzard Crest and Cheerful Cherry have delicious grapes!!
Eckerton has an extensive selection of peppers as well as a unique item, pawpaws! (I thought those were only in children's books or songs!) Oak Grove has an equally wide variety of peppers, and both have many delicious heirloom tomato varieties. This is the year to freeze heirlooms for the winter, as there are so many good ones! In addition to these two stands, some others with great ones are Stokes, Keith, Cherry Lane, Lani, and Cheerful Cherry.
There are still several stands with peaches, including Oak Grove, Locust Grove, and Caradonna. Excellent beans can be found at Norwich Meadows, Mountain Sweet Berry, S&SO, Lani, and others. Both Norwich Meadows and Lani have interesting Asian pepper varieties, and okra.
Flying Pig, Violet Hill, and Oak Grove have various pork cuts and sausages, and Oak Grove has beef as well. Violet Hill has some gorgeous wild mushrooms and Bulich has several kinds of cultivated mushrooms. Cut herbs can be found at Stokes, Keith, S&SO, Lani, and others and potted herbs are available at Oak Grove.
D'Attolico and Gorzynski have delicious greens and Paffenroth has beautiful carrots, radishes, onion family vegetables, and unusual greens. Cayuga is back with dried beans, flours, and breads.
To see these and other products and stands: http://tinyurl.com/8ndlos4
Friday, September 7, 2012 Dancing Ewe is back!!! Berried Treasures has delicious sweet heirloom tomatoes!! Dutchmill has still got a couple of bunches of lycianthus!!
I took the week off to sleep late and eat out for lunches, but I walked back through the Greenmarket and saw lovely heirlooms at many stands, including Berried Treasures, tasty tartufo cheese at Dancing Ewe, and wonderful pastries at Las Delicias. There are still peaches around the market, but pick carefully -- once grapes show up, you know that stone fruit is going to be finished soon. Berried Treasures excellent haricots verts and other beans are delicious at the moment and Norwich Meadows will be here tomorrow as well as today with great produce.
I'll be back in the market early tomorrow, when I expect to see Buzzard Crest and Cheerful Cherry grapes and many delicious vegetables and melons.
Friday, August 31, 2012 Today's breakfast will be a blueberry/almond muffin from Las Delicias, cheeses from Consider Bardwell, and melon from BodhItree and Norwich Meadows with yellow and red raspberries. Later, I'll have summer squash and beans from Bodhitree and Berried Treasures and corn from Sycamore, with a salad of heirloom tomatoes from Lucky Dog and Sycamore. For dessert -- Canadice grapes from Cheerful Cherry!
Today is the last day for lycianthus from Dutchmill. I've been enjoying them with gladiolas all summer -- sorry to see them go! Dutchmill also has other beautiful flowers, and River Garden has many kinds of country flowers and bouquets. Lavender By the Bay is also here.
Samascott, Norwich Meadows, Bodhitree, and others have wide selections of produce, including sweet and hot peppers, beans, corn, melons, etc. Oak Grove has a big selection of hot peppers as well as husk tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes. They also have pork and beef. Madura is here with several kinds of mushroom. Muddy River has taken the holiday.
To see these and other stands and products: http://tinyurl.com/9w67jyf
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Signs of Change
Two clues that indicate that it is time to start making sauce for the freezer -- tomato, pesto, pepper -- are the arrival of Buzzard Crest grapes and grape juices and the start of autumn squashes. I've already done a batch of San Marzano tomatoes (from Cherry Lane) and am planning another of those and a batch of heirloom tomatoes. I'll be making pesto base in ice cube trays as well. I'll get heirlooms from Eckerton, Cherry Lane, Stokes, Keith, and other stands with tasty varieties.
Several stands are into their pepper season. Today Oak Grove has a terrific selection and other stands like Tamarack, Rogowski, S&SO, and Bodhitree have interesting varieties as well.
Mountain Sweet Berry and Berried Treasures have Tri-Star strawberries and Fantasy Fruit has blueberries and strawberries. Terhune has good-looking peaches, although the peach season is just about over. I'd take the opportunity to can them while they are still sweet.
Windfall has their excellent fresh zucchini blossoms as well as many sizes of summer squash. I am planning to fill some with fresh goat cheese and saute them to go with roast chicken. I'll be serving Hudson Valley Duck Rillettes on crackers before that.
To see these and other stands and products: http://tinyurl.com/cjqb7vf
Saturday, August 25, 2012 Buzzard Crest is Back!!!
It's the beginning of grape season and Buzzard Crest is here with many varieties and juices, as well as wines. You can check out their web site at barringtoncellars.com, where you can order in advance to pick up on Saturdays! Cheerful Cherry also has two excellent grape varieties -- champagne and Canadice.
Great heirloom tomatoes are all over the Greenmarket, including Eckerton, Stokes, Norwich Meadow, Oak Grove, Sycamore, and Cherry Lane. Sycamore has been bringing in a second load of very fresh picked corn around 11:00 on Saturdays. Norwich has a huge variety of beans and squashes and many stands have peaches, including Locust Grove (also many kinds of plum), Oak Grove, Terhune, and others.
Eckerton's pepper crop is coming in and they and Oak Grove have many varieties. Cheerful Cherry and Lani also have peppers. Stokes and S&SO have big bunches of cut herbs and Stokes, Lani, and D'Attolico have onions and garlic, as well as greens. Gorzynski has beautiful lettuces and cut herbs and Norwich, Oak Grove, and Cherry Lane have okra. Norwich and Cherry Lane also have raspberries and Fantasy Fruit has strawberries and blueberries. Mountain Sweet Berry has strawberries, great tiny potatoes, and interesting greens.
To see these and other products and stands: http://tinyurl.com/8uzjb3g
Friday, August 24, 2012 Las Delicias is here with delicious sweet treats, including madeleines, muffins, chocolate mini-croissants, savory tarts and fruit tarts. Bobolink Dairy is NOT here this week or next week -- they're taking a well-deserved vacation! Queens County Farm Museum is here with heirloom tomatoes, greens, and flowers. Lavender by the Bay is here with gifts and new crop lavender. Dutchmill has beautiful gladiolas and lycianthus today and Berried Treasures has Tri-Star Strawberries, new crop small potatoes, and other delicious produce. Hot Bread Kitchen has many kinds of regional breads and Consider Bardwell has luscious cheeses, including a great fresh goat cheese and several cow's milk cheeses.
Bodhitree is here with unique greens, peppers, squashes, and heirloom tomatoes and melons. Norwich Meadows also has a wide variety of wonderful produce, including eggplant and pepper varieties, heirloom tomatoes, and many kinds of beans. Cheerful Cherry has heirloom tomatoes, various jellies and pepper spreads, and champagne and other grapes.
For these and other stands and produce, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/ckhjyfl
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 Just Plain Gorgeous!!
The Greenmarket is beautiful today and all your favorite Wednesday stands are here. Windfall has a pungent delicious unique basil, Bodhitree has padron peppers, and Locust Grove has slurpy plums! Hot Bread Kitchen has all kinds of delicious baked goods, and Dutchmill has beautiful gladiolas. I bought some of Stokes Farm's wonderful Aunt Ruby tomatoes, Dutchmill's purple gladiolas and lycianthus, Kernan's peaches, and Windfall's tiny sweet red cherry tomatoes and basil. I'm looking forward to a sauce day this weekend with Cherry Lane's San Marzano plum tomatoes, Paffenroth's onions, and Eckerton's tomatoes and peppers. I'm considering using Bodhitree's padron peppers in a sauce as well.
To see these stands and many others: http://tinyurl.com/93olkm6
Saturday, August 18, 2012 Nasty morning with lots of puddles in the market, but almost every stand is here!
Rose Meadow is here with beautiful roses and other flowers. Everyone else is here, including River Garden and Duva. D'Attolico is here with greens, sprouts, garlic, and onions. (They were a little late -- accidents on the rainy road.)
There are plenty of stands with heirloom tomatoes, including Norwich Meadows, Stokes, Eckerton, Sycamore, Lani, and Cherry Lane. Several stands have beans, including Mountain Sweet Berry, Stokes, Paffenroth, Norwich Meadows, S&SO and Miglorelli. Stokes, Windfall, and others have plenty of squashes, and Lani and Cherry Lane have okra. Eckerton is here with the first of their seasoning and other peppers, Oak Grove has plenty of varieties of hot and sweet peppers, and Cheerful Cherry has peppers and pepper spread as well. Sycamore will have their second delivery of corn at around 11 AM.
Cheerful also has luscious champagne and other grapes and grape jellies as well as succulents for window gardens. Binder and Oak Grove have lush herb plants and S&SO, Paffenroth, and Sycamore have generous bunches of cut herbs.
Locust Grove and Caradonna have several kinds of plum and Oak Grove, Terhune, Caradonna, and others have slurpy peaches. Fantasy Fruit has blueberries and strawberries, and Phillips has berries as well.
To see these stands and many others: http://tinyurl.com/bt7b8jk
Friday, August 17, 2012 Champagne Grapes at Cheerful Cherry!! Artichokes at Muddy River!! Baby artichokes at Norwich Meadows! Heirloom tomatoes and Peaches all over the market!!
Cheerful Cherry has champagne grapes and Canadice grapes today, as well as Canadice grape jelly! They also have tasty heirloom tomatoes and peppers. Bodhitree, Sycamore, Oak Grove, Norwich Meadows, and others have slurpy heirloom tomatoes, and Sycamore and others have corn. Oak Grove has their fabulous yellow and white peaches and melons. Others with great melons -- Norwich, Bodhitree, Oak Grove, and more. Bodhitree and Norwich have wide varieties of beans and greens and Muddy River has beautiful small artichokes, herbs, garlic, and other produce. Berried Treasures has lovely small potatoes, Tri-Star strawberries, and baby squashes.
Consider Bardwell has some delicious cheeses today. I had a great goat cheese from them on Monday and am trying Pawlet today (cow's milk cheese). I'll have a wonderful breakfast -- Sycamore corn, Pawlet, and tomatoes from Sycamore and Oak Grove. I may finish it with some Champagne grapes from Cheerful and a peach from Sycamore or Oak Grove. Or maybe a lavender cookie from Las Delicias!
To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/98rmuer
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 It's High Summer and Tomatoes and Melons are King!
Peaches, too! and Plums!! Kernan, Locust, Oak Grove, Terhune, and others have peaches today. Caradonna and Locust also have a wide variety of plums and berries. Oak Grove, Bodhitree, and others have all kinds of melon, and heirloom tomatoes are everywhere, including at Stokes, Bodhitree, Oak Grove, Keith, Eckerton, S&SO and others. Mountain Sweet Berry and Berried Treasures have delicious Tri-Star strawberries and Fantasy Fruit and Phillips have blueberries and strawberries.
There are plenty of greens in the market, especially at Paffenroth, S&SO, Miglorelli, and Two Guys. Madura and Bulich have several kinds of mushroom and there are squashes and squash blossoms everywhere, particularly at Windfall and Bodhitree. I went a little gaga at the flower stands and ended up with fragrant roses from Rose Meadow and beautiful lycianthus and gladiolas from Dutchmill.
Mountain Sweet Berry has tasty strawberry sorbet and Ronnybrook has many of their great ice cream flavors. Hot Bread Kitchen and Our Daily Bread are here and Andrew's Honey is as well. To see these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/dyb3a4v
Monday, August 13, 2012 Peaches! Melons! Beans! Plums! Blueberries! Blackberries!
I'm having Consider Bardwell Dorset cheese on Buon Pana mini-baguette for breakfast, along with a peach from Healthway. PE&DD has cooked lobsters today, so I bought one to make lobster salad for lunch. My dessert will be a Cavaillon melon from Norwich Meadows Farm (which you should try to buy today -- they all came in due to the heat and will be over any minute) with blueberries from Fantasy Fruit and yogurt from a newish stand, Butterfield Farm.
Tonight I will have a salad of heirloom tomatoes from Eckerton and Norwich, Romano beans from Norwich, and cucumber from Maxwell's Farm. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has delicious duck products and Roaming Acres has pork, bison, and ostrich.
Dutchmill is here with lovely gladiolas, lycianthus, and other flowers. River Garden has beautiful country flower bouquets and the lavender stand has gifts and other lavender items. To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/9jlv5yj
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Peaches! Heirloom Tomatoes! Plums! Squashes! Beans! Greens! Beets!
Kernan, Oak Grove, Locust Grove, Caradonna, Terhune, and others have luscious peaches! Locust Grove and Caradonna have beautiful plums -- many varieties -- and Locust still has red currants!
Eckerton, Oak Grove, Sycamore, Keith, Stokes, Bodhitree, and others have slurpy heirloom tomatoes, and Sycamore and others have kirbys.
Oak Grove has a wide selection of hot and seasoning peppers and they and others have sweet peppers as well. Many stands, including Miglorelli, Sycamore, Van Houten, and others have corn and Bodhitree, Oak Grove, and others have all sorts of melons. Berried Treasures and Mountain Sweet Berry have Tri-Star Strawberries, and Fantasy Fruit has blueberries and strawberries. Phillips also has blueberries.
It's high summer at last and there are plenty of salad greens, cut herbs, edible flowers, and squashes, especially at Stokes, S&SO, Windfall, and Paffenroth. To see these and other stands and produce:
http://tinyurl.com/bqszdvz
Monday, August 6, 2012 Eckerton's First Monday Market!! Roaming Acres has beef, bison, pork and ostrich - it's every meat Monday1
I was glad to see Eckerton here -- and bought three of their great variety of tomatoes. They also have bush basil. Can't wait for the Thai peppers!!
Hudson Valley Duck Farm has duck parts, rillettes, and other duck items. PE&DD is here with delicious fish and prepared fish items. Central Valley has the first of their heirloom tomatoes as well as vegetarian soup and eggs. Norwich is here with delicious melons, heirloom tomatoes, all kinds of peppers and beans, squashes, and other fine produce. Lani has greens, squashes, heirloom tomatoes, and cut herbs. Healthway has potatoes and herbs and Madura has several kinds of mushroom as well as other produce. Race, Troncillito, and Red Jacket have peaches, nectarines, and other delicious fruit. Maxwell's Farm has great cut herbs, corn, beans, tomatoes, and several varieties of hot and sweet peppers.
Dutchmill and River Garden are here with beautiful flowers and Andrew's honey is here, as well as their bees! Fantasy Fruit has blueberries, blackberries, and the last of their strawberries.
Saturday, August 4, 2012 Second delivery corn at Sycamore around 11 AM!
Stokes, Eckerton, Sycamore, Oak Grove, Norwich Meadows, Lani and others have great looking heirloom tomatoes today. You can also find gorgeous squashes and melons at most of those. S&SO has good looking produce and Paffenroth has the first CELERIAC of the season. Keith and Stokes have great cut herbs as do S&SO, and Gorzynski. Norwich Meadows has a wide choice of excellent beans and eggplants and Paffenroth has many kinds of radish and carrot. Mountain Sweet Berry has some unique greens, including sucrine lettuce and wild arugula and Northshire Farm has excellent produce and eggs.
Quattro's has lovely little chickens as well as larger roasters and pheasants. They also have duck parts but no whole ducks today. Their excellent eggs are also here. Flying Pig has sausages and pork cuts and Violet Hill has great chickens and pork as well as colorful chicken eggs. Windfall Farm has many kinds of greens and mesclun as well as tiny to large squashes and various kinds of cherry tomato.
Locust Grove, Oak Grove, Terhune, and Miglorelli have peaches and Caradonna and Locust have several kinds of plum in addition to berries. Fantasy Fruit and Phillips are here with blueberries and you can find strawberries at several stands as well. Mountain Sweet Berry didn't have their usual line for their Tri-Stars, probably due to the hot and sticky weather.
Seatuck is here with fish and shellfish and PE&DD has a huge selection of prepared fish dishes in addition to lobsters and fish. Cato Corner Farm is here with cheese, as is Valley Shepherd, and Three Corner Field Farm has yogurts, cheeses, and wools.
To see these and other stands and products check out: http://tinyurl.com/d2urel6
Friday, August 3, 2012 LAST DAY UNTIL FALL FOR DANCING EWE'S DELICIOUS CHEESES AND SAUSAGES!!!
I bought Bodhitree's "froggy" melon -- the last, unfortunately--and Norwich's Cavaillon melon for a sweet treat. This is the last day for Berried Treasures red currants and they have very few boxes of tiny wild blueberries, but plenty of Tri-Star strawberries. Sycamore, Oak Grove, Bodhitree and others have plenty of good looking heirloom tomatoes and Oak Grove has a wide selection of hot and sweet peppers and pepper plants. Norwich has many kinds of eggplant and Oak Grove, Samascott, Treelicious, and others have lots of peaches. Binder and Oak Grove have lush herb plants as well as other plants, and Bodhitree and Lucky Dog have cut herbs.
Queens County Farm has greens and flowers and Flying Pig has pork cuts and sausages. Roaming Acres has bison, beef, pork, and ostrich meat today. Pura Vida is here with many kinds of fish and Hot Bread Kitchen and others have many kinds of bread. Las Delicias has their outstanding pastries, including madeleines, tiny chocolate brownies, muffins, and small savory tarts.
Two Guys has lettuces and mushrooms and Madura has several kinds of mushrooms and shallots. Muddy River has excellent produce, including artichokes, fennel, and fresh garlic.
To see these and other stands and produce, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/c9mso5d
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 Melons! Berries! Beans! Heirloom Tomatoes! Corn! Peaches!
Oak Grove, Sycamore, Eckerton, Keith, Stokes, Tamarack, Bodhitree, and others have great heirloom tomatoes. Bodhitree and others have luscious melons, and Oak Grove is the place for sweet and hot peppers today. Caradonna, Kernan, Sycamore, Oak Grove, and others have peaches, and Berried Treasures and Mountain Sweet Berry have Tri-star strawberries and tiny wild blueberries. Berried Treasures also has knockout beans and Bodhitree has some interesting bean and pepper varieties. Miglorelli and Paffenroth have several kinds of beets.
Stokes and S&SO have cut herbs. I used Stokes's in my roast chicken last Sunday and the flavors were bright and full. Keith also has good-looking herbs and Rogowski has some interesting looking greens today. Bulich and Madura are here with several kinds of mushroom and Bulich has produce as well. Tamarack and Keith both have tasty looking produce and Tamarack has meats as well. Roaming Acres is here with ostrich meat and other ostrich items and Stony Mountain has beef.
Hot Bread Kitchen and Our Daily Bread are here with all kinds of breads and other baked goods.To see these and others, check out: http://tinyurl.com/cp8mqnt
Saturday, July 28, 2012 Sycamore's Second Delivery Corn at 10:30ish Today!!
Bought a chicken from Quattro for a repeat of last Sunday's sensational roast -- with Ronnybrook garlic butter, Stokes herbs, Paffenroth's red celery, D;Attolico's onion, Keith's Rocambole garlic, with salad of Stoke's basil, Gorzynski's lettuce, Eckerton's sungold cherry tomatoes, and Muddy River's parsley (bought yesterday). Dessert will be Norwich's Cavaillon melon and golden raspberries with Fantasy Fruit blueberries (and the lavender cookies I bought yesterday from Las Delicias).
Many farmers now have heirloom tomatoes, squashes, melons, and peaches. Locust Grove, Fantasy Fruit, Cherry Lane, and others have berries and currants, and Stokes, S&SO and others have cut herbs. Oak Grove and Eckerton are starting to have more peppers and Oak Grove and Norwich have tomatillos.
To see these and others and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/d9lskmx
Friday, July 27, 2012 Bodhitree and Norwich Melons! Hot Bread Kitchen's Raisin Challah! Las Delicias Chocolate "Brownies" are back!
Heirloom tomatoes -- Bodhitree, Norwich, Oak Grove, Lucky Dog, Miglorelli, Berried Treasures
Raspberries -- Norwich (golden and red), Berried Treasures
Peaches -- Oak Grove, Miglorelli, and others
Romanesco beans, both yellow and green -- Norwich, Bodhitree
Beans in general -- Those and others, with Berried Treasures having lovely haricots verts
Las Delicias -- Delicious fruit and savory tarts, madeleines, and other great pastries
Hot Bread Kitchen -- All sorts of ethnic baked goods
Finnish Ruis -- Tasty dark breads
Dutchmill Gardens -- lycianthus, gladiolas, sunflowers, and other beautiful flowers
River Garden -- Lovely country flowers
Tasty Greens -- Queens County Farm Museum, Norwich Farms, Muddy River Farm (ARTICHOKES!!), Lucky Dog, and others.
To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/buyqoba
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Bodhitree has succulent sweet melons! Eckerton has tasty creamy baby potatoes. Corn, zucchini, and beans are bountiful.
I roasted a Quattro's chicken with Stokes fresh herbs and Ronnybrook's wonderful garlic butter on Sunday and am looking forward to a repeat this weekend. With them I roasted zucchini from Stokes, onions from D'Attolico, and tiny potatoes from Eckerton. I had a salad of Gorzynsky's lettuce, Cherry Lane and Oak Grove's heirloom tomatoes, and cucumbers from Sycamore. That was all from Saturday's haul. Today, I'm steaming Sycamore corn, making a salad of leftover chicken, Eckerton's heirloom tomatoes, and Paffenroth carrots. Dessert will include a fruit pie from Breezy Hill and peaches from Locust Grove and Kernan.
Who else is here today?: Hudson Valley Duck Farm, Valley Shepherd cheeses, Hot Bread Kitchen, Rogowski's produce, Fantasy Fruit's blueberries, Berried Treasures strawberries, haricots verts, baby squashes, wild blueberries, and Oak Grove's peaches, Terhune's peaches and other fruit, and Caradonna's peaches and berries.
For these and others: http://tinyurl.com/ccdnvoe
Saturday, July 21, 2012 Red Tailed Hawk!!
A kind Greenmarket regular pointed out the red-tailed hawk regally observing the market action. There were many things to check out today -- particularly red and black currants, heirloom tomatoes, corn, squashes, beautiful salad and other greens and stone fruit, including all kinds of plums and peaches. Golden, red, and black raspberries, Tri-Star and other strawberries, all kinds of kales, and artichokes are available today and the weather is perfect.
Three Corner Field Farm is here with cheeses, yogurts, and lamb. Cato Corner has their tasty cheeses and Valley Shepherd has a variety of interesting cheeses as well. Quattro's and Violet Hill have wide varieties of poultry and Violet Hill has smoked and fresh pork cuts today. Quattro's has pheasant and other eggs and VH has duck and chicken eggs. Norwich also has eggs and chickens.
You'll find beautiful stone fruit at Locust, Caradonna, Terhune, Oak Grove, and others. Heirloom tomatoes are here at Cherry Lane, Oak Grove, and Eckerton as well as Stokes, where you'll also find heirloom cherry tomatoes, all sorts of cut herbs, squashes, and other produce. S&SO also has heirloom tomatoes and Paffenroth has many kinds of produce including red celery, puntarella, and many colored beets, carrots, and radishes. Conuco, Mountain Sweet Berry, and Windfall have beautiful edible zucchini flowers.
To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/d9b5aop
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Lots of Bees!! Oak Grove, River Garden, Dutchmill -- all have beautiful flowers and bees! That's what we need to make Andrew's beautiful honey varieties, so buzz away!
Today I bought corn from Sycamore, lycianthus and gladiolas from Dutchmill, heirloom tomatoes from Eckerton, Stokes, and Oak Grove, peppers from Eckerton and Oak Grove, parsley and coriander from S&SO, and slurpy peaches and nectarines from Kernan. Most of our farmers are here today, including Bodhitree with many kinds of bean, pepper, and greens, Paffenroth with baby fennel, puntarella, and other unique greens, Stokes with fresh cut herbs, tomatoes, squashes, and lettuces, and Berried Treasures and Mountain Sweet Berry with berries, potatoes, and unusual greens.
Tamarack has produce and meats, Madura has only vegetables (no mushrooms today), and Caradonna has all kinds of stone fruits and berries. Red Jacket has good looking apricots and Rogowski and Keith are here with organic vegetables. Eckerton has his delicious cherry tomatoes and large heirlooms and the first of his peppers. Oak Grove has a big selection of hot peppers and pepper plants, heirloom tomatoes, and other vegetables as well as pork and beef.
Locust Grove, Fantasy Fruit, Caradonna, Kernan, and others have berries and currants. To see these and others: http://tinyurl.com/bnuo3x6
Monday, July 16, 2012 Dutchmill's Lycianthus (Prairie Rose) is here!!
It's already getting steamy, so I'm glad I got to the market early. I bought a beautiful bluefish filet from PE&DD, lycianthus and gladiolas from Dutchmill, and Romanesco beans and golden raspberries from Norwich Meadows. The elk meat at Raghoo looks good and Roaming Acres has Berkshire pork, bison, and ostrich meat today. Maxwell's Farm, Lani, and Norwich have wide varieties of beautiful produce and Red Jacket has good-looking stone fruit. Madura and Race have great looking vegetables and Lavender By The Bay is here with fragrant lavender gifts, dried lavender, and other products.
Andrew's Honey has all sorts of NY based honeys and Hudson River Duck Farm has various duck products and ducks. Buen Pana has baguettes and other baked goods. A new stand in the market, Butterfield, has goat's milk products and cheeses. Consider Bardwell will take orders for meat in addition to having their delicious cheeses and crisps today. To see pictures of these and other stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/7ekl9z8
Saturday, July 14, 2012 HAPPY BASTILLE DAY!! Norwich melons! Eckerton, Cherry Lane, Oak Grove, Norwich, and others, HEIRLOOM TOMATOES!!
Today I bought corn from Sycamore, cherry tomatoes from Shushan *it's there last day until the Fall), raspberries from Norwich, milk from Ronnybrook, and wonderful fragrant roses from Rose Meadow. Paffenroth has their gorgeous radish, beet, and carrot varieties as well as unusual greens and a wide variety of onion family vegetables. Stokes has tasty cherry tomatoes and Oak Grove has beautiful pepper plants. Cornuso has good looking haricots verts and Locust Grove has gooseberries, currants, raspberries, cherries, and peaches.
Violet Hill has bacon and other pork products and Quattro's has all kinds of smoked poultry and meat as well as duck eggs. Lani and Windfall have interesting unusual produce including edible flowers, squashes, and peppers, and Eckerton has their excellent sungold tomatoes, other heirloom tomatoes, and other organic greens Gorzynski has my favorite lettuces, other delicious greens and herbs as well as some raspberries. Bulich has several kinds of mushroom and Caradonna has berries and stone fruit. Tremblay has honeys and Beth's Farm Kitchen has their wild blueberry and other jams and chutneys.
For pictures of these and other stands and produce, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/6v7yatd
Friday, July 13, 2012 New at Las Delicias -- Delicious fruit tarts! Artichokes at Muddy River and Norwich Meadows!! I'm having Las Delicias's peach tart for breakfast. So lovely! Bought a few beautiful purple gladiolas from Dutchmill, truffle cheese and sausage from Dancing Ewe, corn from Sycamore, a huge "half" bunch of coriander from Muddy River (they will split a gigantor bunch for you if you ask), red raspberries and fragrant fresh garlic from Norwich, sweet blueberries from Samascot, and a tasty bread from Hot Bread Kitchen. Cherry is back with tomatoes, jams, and other good things. To see these and others:http://tinyurl.com/7nh2kgc
Wednesday,July 11, 2012 Husk tomatoes at Bodhitree! Multicolored sweet carrots at Paffenroth! Slurpy peaches at Kernan! Heirloom field tomatoes at Eckerton, Cherry Lane, and Oak Grove!!
Today I bought roses at Rose Meadow, corn at Sycamore, gladiolas at Dutchmill, and peaches at Kernan. The melons at Bodhitree taste great and the mushrooms at Bulich look fresh and delicious. Stokes and Keith have different garlic varieties -- both of which are excellent -- and there are plenty of berries and currants around the market, including Caradonna, Locust Grove, Berried Treasures, and Mountain Sweet Berry.
I just ate one of Kernan's peaches. OMG! how perfect! And Mountain Sweet Berry's Tri-Star strawberries! They finally have enough to put out several boxes (for those of you who have been disappointed to find them sold out). Berried Treasures wild blueberries are tiny nuggets of essence of blueberry and Locust Grove's currants are great for baked desserts and jams. To see these stands and others:
http://tinyurl.com/6lzmzln
Monday, July 9, 2012 Artichokes at Norwich!! Bluefish at PE&DD! Bison at Roaming Acres! CSI choices at Central Valley!!
Monday's market is smaller, but very impressive, with Consider Bardwell's delicious cheeses, Hudson Valley Duck Farm's ducks and duck products, Norwich Meadows, Maxwell,'s and Lani's produce, and Healthway's excellent potatoes. Red Jacket has great looking apricots and other fruit, and Race has blueberries, cherries, and other produce as well. Madura has several kinds of mushroom in addition to other vegetables, and Truncillo has tasty looking fruit.
Rising Sun Beef, PE&DD, Raghoo (elk meat!), and Roaming Acres have various kinds of delicious protein, and Hudson Valley Duck Farm has several duck products as well as ducks. Andrew's Honey and other stands complete the food options. A new entry on Monday -- Butterfield Farm's goat milk items.
Dutchmill has beautiful gladiolas and River Garden has unusual flower choices. Both have lovely sunflower varieties.
To see these and other items, check out this url: http://tinyurl.com/82ago4y
Saturday, July 7, 2012 Just about every Saturday stand is here! Best advice -- go early today!
Locust Grove -- currants, gooseberries, raspberries, cherries, peaches, etc. Stokes -- cut herbs, garlic, greens, squashes Cornuco -- Organic produce Van Houten -- flowering plants, squashes, tomatoes, corn Miglorelli -- root vegetables, peas, fruit
Paffenroth -- many kinds of radishes, carrots, baby fennel, puntarella, onions of all sorts D'Attiloco -- garlic, onions, greens, sprouts Ryder -- organic produce Gorzynsky -- organic produce, raspberries, blueberries, gorgeous lettuces Oak Grove -- tomatoes, flours, sunflowers, popcorn
Windfall -- edible flowers, mesclun, squashes, greens Mountain Sweet Berry -- wild arugula, chamomile flowers, golden nugget potatoes, greens. Their Tri-stars are probably gone by now Sycamore -- Corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, cauliflower Ronnybrook -- ICE CREAM!!!
Cato Corner Farm-- cheese Three Corner Field Farm-- cheese, yogurt, lamb cuts Cayuga-- breads,grains, beans Tonjes -- goat milk, yogurts, cheeses
Rose Meadow, James Durr, Silva, and others, flowers.
To see these and others, check out this URL:
http://tinyurl.com/7lkdumd
Friday, July 6, 2012 Headlines: Bodhitree has heirloom tomatoes! Norwich has WATERMELON!!
Otherwise, the same stands here last Friday are here today. Norwich also has white and red wild strawberries, red, yellow, and black raspberries, and a wide variety of beans and peppers. Divine Brine is not here, but Las Delicias is definitely here with beautiful fruit tarts, madelines, and other lovely pastries and savory tarts. Dancing Ewe has great Italian cheeses and Samascott has delicious fruit., including blueberries. Dutchmill has gladiolas in many colors.
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Union Square Greenmarket is open today. A few stands took the day off, but many are here! To see who's here and what they've brought, check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/7sp6yrx
Saturday, June 30, 2012 Bulletin!! Cheerful Cherry is back with plants and jams. Oak Grove has heirloom tomatoes!! Eckerton has heirloom tomatoes and peppers! Sycamore has corn!! For other stands and produce, check out: http://tinyurl.com/753gx9m
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Sycamore's CORN!! Eckerton's BLACK RASPBERRIES! Berried Treasures' TRI-STAR STRAWBERRIES! Kernan's SLURPY PEACHES!
I am enjoying one of Kernan's delicious peaches as I write. Sycamore's corn is here and their shelling peas are sweet and tasty and the price of shelling peas there and in the market in general is good. Locust Grove has sweet black cherries, queen anne cherries, GOOSEBERRIES, RED CURRANTS, red raspberries and blueberries. Caradonna also has a variety of stone fruit and berries. Cherry Lane has raspberries and Terhune and Phillips are here with berries as well.
Stokes has sorrel and many other cut herbs, garlic, tomatoes, and squashes. Keith has organic cut herbs, spring onions, Rocambole garlic, and many kinds of green. Paffenroth is here with an excellent variety of beets, carrots, and other produce as well as corn.
Dutchmill, River Garden, and Silva are here with various kinds of flower, and Tamarack, Hudson Valley, Roaming Acres, and others are here with meats and poultry. Hot Bread Kitchen has an assortment of ethnic breads and Andrew's honey is here as well. Blue Moon has fish and shellfish.
For these and other stands and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/7bvo4mr
Saturday, June 23, 2012 Sycamore says CORN next Saturday! Stokes has sorrel!! Shushan's sweet cherry tomatoes!
Mountain Sweet Berry has no strawberries today, but they do have several interesting greens, including "Dan's Chicory", wild arugula, and two kinds of pea shoots. D'Attolico has great young onions and garlic and delicious greens and sprouts. Cherry Lane has heirloom tomatoes, and Eckerton has carrots, new potatoes, and greens. Lani, Mountain Sweet Berry, Norwich, and others have fava beans, and Lani has all kinds of other beans, greens, and various onions and fresh garlic. Stokes and Keith also have new crop garlic, greens, herbs, and other vegetables, and Stokes has tasty cherry tomatoes, other greenhouse tomatoes, blueberries, and squashes. Gorzynsky, Conuca, and Hudson Valley are here with various greens and Hawthorne Valley has all kinds of produce, breads, and dairy products. Catskill Merino has various sheep products and wool, and Three Corner Field Farm has yogurts, cheeses, and lamb cuts. Cato Corner is here with delicious cheeses.
Hodgeson and Locust Grove have strawberries and blueberries, and Locust has RED CURRANTS, raspberries, and GOOSEBERRIES. Caradonna has many kinds of berries and cherries.
Seatuck has several kinds of seafood, including bags of mussels. PE&DD has cooked lobsters, seafood salads, crabcakes, fish, and shellfish. Flying pig is here with pork products and Violet Hill has sausages, chicken and chicken parts, and mushrooms. Quattro's has pheasant and wild turkey eggs, poultry, venison chili, smoked poultry and other delicious meats.
Rose Meadow has beautiful roses, snapdragons, and sweet peas. River Garden has fresh cut lavender and grasses. Duva has lilies. For these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/7y8zljk
Friday, June 22, 2012 It's too darned HOT, but our farmers are here!!
Samascott, Norwich, and others have strawberries, and Berried Treasures and Norwich have wild strawberries. Norwich has both red and yellow wild ones. Samascott has rhubarb, too, and various vegetables. Norwich has favas, various string beans, squashes, greens, and other tasty organic produce. Berried Treasures has small La Ratte and other unique potatoes, as well as cut herbs. Stokes has greenhouse cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, cut herbs, fresh garlic, and other produce. Miglorelli has huge piles of peas and beets, as well as CORN! Queens County Farm Museum has beautiful produce and Bobolink is next stand over with great cheeses. Hot Bread Kitchen has all sorts of interesting breads and Ruis is here with their dark Finnish style.
Raghoo has elk and other meats, Roving Acres has ostrich and ostrich eggs, Rising Sun has beef, and Pura Vida is here with fish. Divine Brine has all sorts of pickled vegetables and Dancing Ewe has ricotta and other delicious Italian cheeses. Las Delicias has wonderful pastries, including addictive gluten free brownies(!). Beth's Farm Kitchen is here with all sorts of jams, jellies, chutneys, and pickled vegetables. Tremblay has lovely honey and Deep Mountain has tasty maple syrups and candies. For these and others: http://tinyurl.com/6wxdtwe
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 It's pretty warm already, and uncomfortably humid, but all of our farmers are here. Locust Grove has blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and several kinds of cherry. Mountain Sweet Berry has pea shoots, Tri-Stars, and interesting greens, and Eckerton has cherry tomatoes, some heirlooms, and great French breakfast radishes. Bodhitree, Keith, Stokes, and others have cut herbs, and Berried Treasures has La Ratte potatoes, and several other potato varieties. Bulich and Madura both have great looking mushrooms, and Rogowski, S&SO, Tamarack, and others have excellent produce.
Dutchmill is here with lilies, gladiolas, sweet peas, and other beautiful flowers, and Ronnybrook is here with milks, drinkable yogurts, butters, cheeses, and ice creams. Tweefontein has herb teas and other herbal products. Cherry Lane and Rogowski have snow peas. Kernan has peaches, string beans, and squashes, and Hoeffner has rhubarb, tomatoes, and other produce. Caradonna has cider, flowering and other plants, and cherries.
Hudson Valley Duck Farm, Roaming Acres (ostrich meat), Blue Moon fish and seafood, and others are here with various meats, poultries, and eggs.
Oak Grove has beef and pork and Stony Mountain has beef cuts.
Two Guys and Shushan have hydroponic produce and Sycamore has broccoli, cucumbers, tomatoes, and basil. For these and others: http://tinyurl.com/d7s4xga
Saturday, June 16, 2012 Check out Locust Grove, Phillips, Lani, Hodgson,and Cherry Lane for berries. Hoeffner and others have rhubarb. Cherry Lane and others have gorgeous new crop onions and Norwich Meadows, Stokes, and others have young garlic, onions, and shallots. Paffenroth has baby fennel, upland cress, and other unique vegetables, and Mountain Sweet Berry and Northshire have sucrine and other interesting greens. Stokes has beautiful sorrel and they and S&SO have beautiful cut herbs. Binder and Oak Grove have great herb plants, and Silver Heights has many kinds of vegetable plants. Gorzynsky and Eckerton have great organix produce and D'Attolico and Monkshood have many kinds of interesting sprouts. Ryder Farm is back with beautiful produce!!
Seacliff has softshell crabs,many other kinds of shellfish, and fish, and PE&DD have cooked lobsters as well as seafood salads, shellfish, fish, and crab cakes. Violet Hill has fresh pork cuts, chickens, and sausages, as well as interesting eggs and mushrooms,and Quattro's has wild turkey eggs, pheasant eggs, and chicken eggs. Bulich is here with many kinds of mushroom as well.
River Garden has fragrant lavender and other flowers, Rose Meadow has beautiful roses, sweetpeas, and snapdragons, and James Durr is here with beautiful country flowers. Duva has several kinds of lily.
For these and other stands and produce, check this out: http://tinyurl.com/737ql4a
Friday, Jun3 15, 2012 Blueberries! Strawberries! Sorrel! Multicolored broccoli! Fava Beans! Shishito peppers!
Bodhitree and Norwich have several kinds of beans, including favas, as well as greens, lettuces, and other fresh produce. Several stands have cucumbers and kirbys, and there are beautiful greenhouse tomatoes at many stands as well. Oak Grove has pepper and tomato plants and windowsill herb gardens with various mixes. Binder, Dutchmill, Oak Grove, Stokes, and others have herb plants of all kinds and Muddy River, Stokes, Norwich, and others have gorgeous garlic. Mischick and Muddy have beautiful onions and Muddy has carrots (if you get there early enough(. Miglorelli has a huge supply of beets, radishes, and other root vegetables as well as broccoli rabe, sugar snaps, and shelling peas. Bodhitree has shishito pappers and Stokes has BLUEBERRIES.
Queens County Farm Museum is here with lovely flowers and produce and Dutchmill has beautiful gladiolas, lilies, sweet peas, and other country flowers. Divine Brine is here with succulent pickles, Beth has tasty jams and chutneys, and Las Delicias has amazing pastries, including fruit tarts addictive lavender cookies and chocolate brownies, and wonderful vegetable tarts. For pictures of today's offerings: http://tinyurl.com/bu3g459
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Chervil! Snow Peas! Greenhouse heirloom tomatoes! Elephant Garlic! Romano Beans! Edible Flowers!
Mountain Sweet Berry has chervil, wild arugula, and other tiny unusual greens. Bodhitree has elephant garlic, Romano and other beans, and many kinds of greens and salad greens. Windfall has several kinds of edible flowers, mini mesclun and other unique greens and salad. Cherry Lane has tasty greenhouse heirloom tomatoes and what may be the last of their strawberries, as well as snow peas, snap peas, and asparagus.
Dutchmill has the first of their gladiolas as well as several beautiful field flowers, lilies, and a wild looking variety of sweet pea, and Rose Meadow has unique country roses, snapdragons, and sweet peas.
To see these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/8ydpk74
Monday, June 11, 2012 Norwich has favas and other beans as well as sveral kinds of summer squash, cucumbers, salad greens, and young garlic. Maxwell, Lani, and others also have favas and other beans and peas. Madura has many kinds of mushroom as well as other produce and Healthway has several good looking varieties of potato, as well as apples and herb plants.
Dutchmill has gorgeous lilies and other country flowers and the lavender stand has lavender plants as well as dried flowers and gift items.
Raghoo is here with poultry and other meats and Roaming Acres has Berkshire pork, bison, ostrich and other meats. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks and duck items including smoked duck breast and PE&DD is here with great fresh fish and shellfish, including cooked lobsters. Several farms including Race, Red Jacket, Lani, and others have strawberries. Race also has donuts and other pastries. Central Valley has yogurt, vegetarian soup, eggs, and other products, and Tello has several sizes of egg. For these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/7by54jv
Saturday, June 9, 2012 Sweet and sour cherries! Onion scapes at D'Attolico!
D'Attolico has mache, young onions, onion scapes, greens, and sprouts. Locust Grove has sweet and sour cherries. Lani, Windfall, and others have edible flowers, and Norwich Meadows, Lani, and others have fava beans, sugar snaps, and shelling peas. Cherry Lane has greenhouse heirloom tomatoes, and Stokes and Shushan have sweet cherry tomatoes. Cayuga is here with delicious breads, beans, and grains, and Beth's Farm Kitchen has jams, chutneys, and a tasty apricot ginger salad dressing.
Flying Pig has sausages and pork cuts, Quattro's has poultry, rabbits, soups, and smoked meat and poultry as well as pheasant eggs, wild turkey eggs,and chicken eggs, and Violet Hill has chickens, chicken parts, various chicken eggs, and mushrooms. Northshire has honey, greens, and eggs.
Stokes and Keith have different garlic varieties and all sorts of greens and cut herbs. Oak Grove has pepper plants and heirloom tomato plants as well as popping corn, lettuces, edible nasturtiums, and sunflowers. Cherry Lane, Lani, and others have asparagus and other greens. Tweefontein is here with various herbal products. For these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/cp7oe6m
Friday, June 8, 2012 Red and Yellow Cherries at Treelicious!! Mischick has moved from the 17th Street end of the market to the 15th! Las Delicias has Gluten Free pastries!
Sycamore has strawberries, tomatoes, and basil. Bodhitree and Norwich have favas and D&J has unique Asian vegetables. Stokes has sweet and tasty cherry tomatoes and more and more cut herbs. If you've never seen a flowering garlic stalk, check them out at Bodhitree!
Treelicious does have cherries, and you will probably find other stands with cherries this season, but many orchards from the North lost their crops and the season will probably be shorter than usual. There are plenty of strawberries and rhubarb today, so check out Samascott, Miglorelli, and others. Berried Treasures has their wild strawberries a bit early this year.
Several stands have asparagus, including Samascott, Miglorelli, and Bodhitree. Bodhitree and Norwich Meadows have various kales and other greens, and Queens Farm Museum, Stokes, and others have good looking lettuce and cut herbs. Binder is here with herb and other flats of plants for gardens and Van Houten is here as well with flowering plants, trees, and other potted plants. Oak Grove has gorgeous lush herb plants and tomato plants.
To see these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/82dv5f4
Monday, June 4, 2012 It's Rainy, But Everyone's Here!
Race has knockout strawberries, pastries, and plants. Maxwell's, Lani, Phillips, and others have good-looking strawberries as well. Norwich Meadows, Lani, and Phillips all have great looking FAVA BEANS, and Norwich has young summer squashes with blossoms, small squashes, greens, and other tasty produce. Lani has tomatoes, squashes, herbs, salad greens, and asparagus. Central Valley has eggs, tomato sauce, cheeses, and yogurt. Maxwelll's has herbs, sugar snaps, beets, greens, shell peas, and asparagus.
Dutchmill has beautiful peonies, lilies, and other lovely flowers. Hudson Valley Duck is here with ducks and duck products and Raghoo has all sorts of meats and poultry as well as eggs. Consider Bardwell has cheeses and crisps, and Healthway is here with potatoes, apples, and small plants. To see what these and others have brought today, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7qfeuqo
Saturday, June 2, 2012 Sugar snaps, English peas, lettuces, herbs, heirloom tomatoes, strawberies, tart cherries, sucrine, pea shoots! Stokes -- salad and other greens, delicious cherry tomatoes, herbs. Keith -- Salad greens, young rocambole garlic, herbs. D'Attolico -- Young garlic, broccoli rabe, sprouts, salad and other greens. Miglorelli -- sugar snaps and other greens, tomato juice, apple sauce, strawberries. Norwich Meadows -- Kirbys, salad, kales, mustard greens. Oak Grove -- Tomato, herb, nasturtium, and sunflower plants.
Tremblay -- Honey Caradonna -- cider, plants. Binder -- herb and flowering plants and flats. Rose Meadows -- Beautiful country roses. Violet Hill -- Mushrooms, chickens, eggs. Northshire -- Eggs, sucrine lettuce, honey. Bulich -- Mushrooms. Eckerton -- Salad greens, carrots, radishes, sugar snaps, English peas. Paffenroth -- a wide variety of interesting greens. Lani -- asparagus, greens, strawberries.
Check this URL for these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/6p95etm
Friday, June 1, 2012 Sycamore, Samascott, Stokes, Bodhitree, and others have strawberries, and Berried Treasures has Tri-Star strawberries
Lucky Dog and Berried Treasures have pea shoots and wild watercress, and Bodhitree, Samascott, and Miglorelli have asparagus. Norwich Meadows has baby summer squashes with blossoms, and middle eastern cucumbers as well as other late spring vegetables.
Las Delicias has new fruit tarts and scones, in addition to their addictive lavender cookies, tiny rich chocolate brownies, madeleines, and other treats. Hot Bread Kitchen has a wide variety of interesting and tasty baked goods.
Pura Vida is here with their delicious seafood, Roaming Acres with beef, pork, and ostrich meat, Sun Fed with beef, and Flying Pig with pork.
Queens County Farm Museum is bringing in more and more great produce, and Bobolink is here with excellent cheeses.
To see these and other stands and what they've brought, check this url: http://tinyurl.com/cab2ulo
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Stokes has delicious cherry tomatoes and the beginning of their heirlooms, and Cherry Lane has tasty greenhouse heirlooms as well. Eckerton has the first of their sungold cherry tomatoes today. KEITH is here as well, with cut herbs, greens, young garlic, and lettuces. Madura has good-looking greens and other produce and Rogowski has a beautiful new Japanese turnip variety as well as other produce. Berried Treasures has small potatoes and sunchokes and Mountain Sweet Berry has Lamborne pea shoots, baby arugula, and other small greens, including beautiful sucrine lettuce. To see who's here today and what they've brought, click on this: http://tinyurl.com/7pzuzmu
Monday, May 28, 2012 Consider Bardwell's Fresh Goat Cheese! Hudson Valley Duck Farm's Ducks!! Roaming Acres Berkshire Pork, Bison, Ostrich! Raghoo's elk! PE&DD's fish and seafood! There's plenty of protein in the market today. Several stands have beautiful greens, including Norwich Meadows, Maxwell's, Madura, and others, and Healthway has many kinds of tasty potatoes. Red Jacket has rhubarb and Lani has lots of gorgeous fresh new crop garlic. The lavender people are here with edible lavender as well as gift options, and Madura has mushrooms. PE&DD has beautiful fish and other seafood, but has run out of skate already! Check this URL to see who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/7pzuzmu
Saturday, May 26, 2012 Cherry Lane's snow peas! Edible flowers from Lani and Windfall! Strawberries from Cherry Lane, Phillips, Stokes, and others.KEITH IS BACK!! WITH BEAUTIFUL GREENS AND HERBS.
Sugar snaps -- Miglorelli, Cherry Lane, Eckerton.
Lettuces -- S&SO, Eckerton, Stokes, Cherry Lane, Windfall
Young garlic, onions -- D'Attolico, Eckerton, Lani
Greenhouse heirloom tomatoes -- Cherry Lane
Hydroponic cherry tomatoes -- Shushan
Mache -- D'Attolico
Asparagus -- Stokes, Durr, Miglorelli, Hoeffner
Purple Asparagus -- Hoeffner
Rhubarb -- Hoeffner
Lambs quarters -- Windfall, Paffenroth, Lani
LAST SATURDAY FOR TWO GUYS HYDROPONIC GREENS and HUDSON VALLEY DUCK FARM (who will be here on Mondays and Wednesdays). Last week for Durr's peonies.
Sucrine lettuce -- Northshire
Rabbit, pheasant eggs, turkey eggs -- Quattro's
Chicken parts for the grill -- Violet Hill
GORZYNSKY IS NOT HERE
GARDENERS! FLOWERING PLANTS, TREES, TOMATO PLANTS, ALL SLOWING DOWN FOR THE SEASON!
Check this URL for who else is here and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/6mn6xbz
Friday, May 25, 2012 A rainy day, but everyone's here!
Las Delicias -- delicious challahs -- three kinds -- chocolate "brownies" -- canneles, madelines, etc.
Divine Brine -- many kinds of savory pickles
Samascott -- rhubarb, asparagus
Stokes -- herbs, asparagus, greens -- and their beautiful potted flowering and edible plants, for which the season is almost over. There are several plant nurseries in the market right now. Binder, Oak Grove, Van Houten, and others are here today and will be here tomorrow, as will Heffner and Hodgeson.
Ronnybrook Dairy, Hammond (yogurt), and Red Jacket are here, and Muddy River has sorrel, dill, cress, and breakfast radish, in addition to their other tasty produce.
Rose Meadow has roses, anemones, and snapdragons. Miglorelli has snap peas and shelling peas.
Roaming Acres has all sorts of meat today, including ostrich, beef, and pork. Raghoo has many kinds of meat and poultry as well. For great Italian cheeses, check out Dancing Ewe.
To see who else is here and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/7ubgazq
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Sugar Snap Peas!Green Garlic! Greenhouse Heirloom Tomatoes! Purple and Green Asparagus!!
Sugar snap peas -- Cherry Lane, Eckerton, Miglorelli
Purple asparagus -- a little at Bodhitree and Hoeffner
Green asparagus -- Bodhitree, S&SO, Miglorelli, Hoeffner, Cherry Lane
Unique small potatoes -- Mountain Sweet Berry, Berried Treasures
Young scallions, green onions, mushrooms -- Madura
Hydroponic lettuces and mushrooms -- Two Guys
Greenhouse heirloom tomatoes -- Cherry Lane
Hydroponic tomatoes, herbs, cherry tomatoes, lettuces -- Shushan
Peonies -- Dutchmill and others
Rose sale, beautiful anemones -- Rose Meadow
Radishes, carrots, lettuces, greens -- Rogowski, Bodhitree, Eckerton, Madura, Migloreilli
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 BULLETIN!! Keith's Farm will be back in the Saturday Greenmarket on May 26th!!! Look for his excellent garlic and other tasty vegetables this weekend!
Saturday, May 19, 2012 Next to last chance for Durr's Exquisite peonies!
Durr has beautiful dark peonies this week as well as fragrant white and pink varieties, and mixed bunches of old fashioned irises. Duva has Dutch irises and pretty old fashioned irises and Rose Meadow has snapdragons, sweet peas, anemones, and lovely roses. River Garden has grasses and wildflowers.
Cherry Lane has tasty greenhouse heirloom tomatoes and Shushan has their succulent red cherry tomatoes. Stokes has had the last of their asparagus and Hoeffner, Cherry Lane, Lani, S&SO and others have green asparagus today. The market is getting greener in general, with many sources for lettuces, such as Two Guys, Lani, Eckerton, S&SO, Gorzynski, Stokes, and others. Paffenroth, Lani, Windfall, Mountain Sweet Berry, Norwich Meadows, and others have unique greens and cut herbs.
Northshire has sucrine, eggs, honey, and MORELS today and Bulich has several kinds of mushroom. Cayuga is here today with many kinds of grains and beans, including "bumblebee beans" (Ask what to do with those!), and delicious beer and wholewheat breads. Violet Hill has interesting mushrooms along with many varieties of chicken egg and a large supply of chicken parts and whole chickens.
For pictures of these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/78h2ntw
Friday, May 18, 2012 Too late to post for today
However, here's a message from Northshire Farm for tomorrow:
Ramps, sucrine, rocket, and rabbit! Also honey and chicken eggs. See you all tomorrow!
Who was here at 1PM today? http://tinyurl.com/6uhjes4
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Miglorelli has sugar snap peas!
Hoeffner, Bodhitree, Cherry Lane, and others have delicious asparagus. Cherry Lane has their tasty greenhouse HEIRLOOM TOMATOES! Berried Treasures has good-looking ramps, ramp bulbs, sunchokes, and small potatoes. Bodhitree, Cherry Lane, and others have STRAWBERRIES. Rogowski has all kinds of greens, including stinging nettles, and Bodhitree, Miglorelli, and others have baby beets. Stokes has several kinds of cut herb, as do Bodhitree, Shushan, and others.
Beth's Farm Kitchen has a new product -- ramp pesto!
See this URL for who else is here and what they've brought:http://tinyurl.com/7egmf2a
Monday, May 14, 2012 Strawberries! Bags of Root Vegetables! Fresh duck, elk, bison, bluefish!
PE&DD has good looking fish and seafood, including excellent fresh bluefish. Raghoo has elk, but no lamb today, and Hudson Valley Duck Farm has fresh ducks, duck parts, rillettes, smoked duck breast, and other goodies. Roaming Acres has beef, pork, and bison, in addition to ostrich meat and eggs.
Lani, Phillips, and Maxwell have tasty looking strawberries and Lani has many kinds of Italian and Asian greens, edible flowers, and herbs. Race, Phillips, and Madura have flowering and other plant sets, and Andrew's honeys, D&J organic vegetables and kimchees, and the lavender stand are here. Dutchmill is taking a well-deserved after-Mother's Day Weekend day off, and will be back on Wednesday.
See this URL for the stands here today: http://tinyurl.com/bt4hb2c
Saturday, May 12, 2012 Eckerton has gorgeous lettuces and other greens. Miglorelli has several kinds of baby beets, turnips, and greens. Stokes has many cut herbs as well as potted herbs, vegetables, and flowers. Silver Heights has flats of vegetables and herbs. Binder and Oak Grove have herb flats and flowering potted plants and Hoeffner, Stokes, and Hodgson have great flowering plant and herb sets as well. Paffenroth has unique greens as well as many kinds of onion and potato. D'Attolico has greens, sprouts, and young garlic.
Cherry Lane, Lani, and Phillips have STRAWBERRIES, and all of those and Hoeffner have asparagus.
James Durr has several varieties of peony and iris as well as other flowers. Rose Meadow has pretty anemones, roses, sweet peas,and snapdragons. There are plenty of Mother's Day options, if that's your pleasure, including honeys from various stands and wrapped jams from Beth's Farm Kitchen.
For pictures of these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/7buyesb
Friday, May 11, 2012, 2012 Sorry to have been out of touch for the week -- had a cold!
I'm back now, though, and did manage to get to the Greenmarket a bit late, but not too late to see Queens County Farm's pea shoots, Consider Bardwell's first fresh goat cheese of the year, and to score the last purple asparagus of the day from Stokes. I also managed to get some of Las Delicias's wonderful canneles, chocolate "brownies", and madeleines, and Dutchmill's gorgeous peonies. I also snagged a raisin challah from Hot Bread Kitchen! I'll be much earlier and more helpful tomorrow morning! Meanwhile, check this URL for pictures of the stands here today: http://tinyurl.com/6nv86yr
Saturday, May 7, 2012 Peach colored peonies!! Lilacs! Lilies of the Valley! Old-Fashioned bearded irises!
James Durr has many peony varieties as well as irises, tulips, and other flowers. River Garden has lilacs and lilies of the valley. It's a flower-lover's paradise in the Greenmarket today! If you like sweet purple asparagus, Hoeffner still had some when I left a few minutes ago. Many stands have green asparagus and broccoli rabe. D'Attolico and many others have young onions and garlic and several have ramps. Eckerton has beautiful radishes and greens. Norwich Meadows has greens and root vegetables.
Three Corner Field Farm has sheep yogurt as well as lamb cuts and cheeses and Tonjes has goat's milk, yogurt, cheeses, and other goat milk items. Violet Hill has chicken and duck eggs and Quattro's has pheasant, wild turkey, and chicken eggs. Northshire also has chicken eggs as well as honey and various greens. Mountain Sweet Berry has potatoes, potato chips, and ramps.
Stokes has a huge selection of herb, vegetable, and flowering plant flats, as do Van Houten, Oak Grove, Binder, Hodgson, Hoeffner, and others. Rose Meadow is having a sale on roses today and has anemones and other flowers. Nemeth and Breezy Hill have pastries.
For pictures: http://tinyurl.com/8a4d6aj
Friday, May 4, 2012 Asparagus, Salad Mix, Ramps, Fiddleheads, Beautiful Baby Beets!
Muddy River has gorgeous baby beets, arugula, young garlic, and other delicious produce. Bodhitree has excellent asparagus, greens, edible flowers, herbs, strawberries,and fresh eggs. Miglorelli has lots of broccoli rabe for those who want to try New York Magazine's recipe, and Queens County Farm Museum has excellent salad mix, spinach, and other produce. Berried Treasures has sunchokes, ramps, and elegant small potatoes.
Las Delicias has lovely pastries and Dancing Ewe has succulent cheeses. Rose Meadow Farm has beautiful anemones and roses and Dutchmill has many colors of Dutch iris and Sweet William.
Raghoo has all kinds of meats, including lamb, and Roaming Acres has ostrich, pork, and beef, along with emu and ostrich eggs. Flying Pig has sausages and pork cuts and Pura Vida has very fresh fish and seafood.
Check this for pictures of who's here and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/7x549yc
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 BULLETIN
Bodhitree has sugar snap peas!!!
Monday, April 30, 2012, 2012 Last of Dutchmill's Parrot Tulips Today!!
I had to buy more of Dutchmill's wonderful tulips, since today is the last time we'll see those this year! I picked up some donuts from Race and the first bluefish of the season from PE&DD. I checked out the elk meat at Raghoo and think I might try their elk burger next Monday, although Roaming Acres bison also looks interesting. Central Valley has good-looking mozzarella and Rising Sun beef has several kinds of steak and other cuts. Lani has young shallots and garlic -- I bought some shallots to have with my bluefish tonight. Phillips was apparently the only stand with asparagus today, but Madura has a variety of produce as well as many kinds of mushroom.
To see who is here and what they've brought, check out this URL:http://tinyurl.com/7zfqhf4
Saturday, April 28, 2012 Peonies!! Old Fashioned Irises!! Lilies of the Valley!! James Durr has beautiful flowers this week, including many colors and kinds of peonies, irises, lilies of the valley, flowering branches, and more. Stokes, Hoeffner, Miglorelli, and others have asparagus, and Lani, Mountain Sweet Berry, and others have ramps. S&SO has asparagus, new season spinach, and other vegetables, and Eckerton is back with gorgeous radishes and greens. Gorzynski has interesting organic vegetables and Silver Heights, Binder, Van Houten, Oak Grove, and others have vegetable and flowering plant flats for gardens.
Seatuck has wonderful shellfish, including soft-shelled crabs, several kinds of clam, and lovely scallops, as well as other seafood. PE&DD also has great fish and seafood, as well as prepared fish salads and other items.
Check this URL for who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/bukdwyr
Friday, April 27, 2012 Delicious pastries, elegant Italian cheeses, tasty pickles, gorgeous old fashioned irises! Friday's market is getting pretty wonderful, with Bodhitree's mixed purple and green asparagus, Samascott's rhubarb, Dutchmill's old fashioned irises, Divine Brine's many pickle varieties, and Las Delicias's excellent pastries. There are Binder's vegetable and flowering plant flats, Beth's wide variety of jams, Queens County Farm Museum's salad mix, Berried Treasures sunchokes, Lucky Dog's fiddleheads, and Mountain Sweet Berries unique potato chips. There are plenty of ramps and asparagus offerings from many stands and Rose Meadow has beautiful unusual anemones today.
See this URL for pictures of the stands here today: http://tinyurl.com/89udwoz
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Purple asparagus -- Hoeffner, Stokes
Strawberries -- Bodhitree
Young spring spinach -- S&S0, Bodhitree, Rogowski
Mini kale, mustard greens, other mini-vegetables -- Rogowski, Two Guys, Windfall
Green Asparagus -- Stokes, Hoeffner, Miglorelli, Bodhitree, and many others
Ramps -- Berried Treasures, Mountain Sweet Berry, and others
Check this out for pixtures of who's here and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/6n74mza
BULLETIN! TAMARACK AND GARDEN OF SPICES HAVE FIDDLEHEADS!!
Monday, April 23, 2012 Rain has kept a few stands home, but many are here.
I bought flounder filet from PE&DD, young shallots and garlic from Lani, cheese from Consider Bardwell, and yogurt from Hammond Dairy (who has started to bring in drinkable yogurt as well). Race is here with many flowering and other plants as well as honey and baked goods. Madura has many vegetables, mushrooms, and flowering plants. Lani has edible flowers, greens, scapes, cut herbs, and salad greens, along with various kinds of onion family items. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has smoked duck breast this week along with ducks and other duck products.
Check this URL for these and other stands who've braved the rain to get to Union Square Greenmarket:
http://tinyurl.com/d6lknqd
Saturday, April 21, 2012 Eckerton is back!!! They've got greens and radishes today. Otherwise, things are pretty much as they were last week, with plenty of asparagus, spinach, and ramps around the market. More later.
Friday, April 20, 2012 BULLETIN! Strawberries and asparagus at Bodhitree!! Berried Treasures is back with ramps, tiny potatoes, sunchokes. Muddy River is back with greens, shallots, and young garlic. Samascott has RHUBARB!!
New in the Greenmarket -- Las Delicias has brought in delicious pastries and cookies. I'm having a couple of mini croissants for breakfast -- delicious indeed!
See this URL for pictures of most of the stands here today: http://tinyurl.com/7wf36gb
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 BULLETIN!! Cherry Lane is back with ASPARAGUS!!!
Cherry Lane and Bodhitree have asparagus, as do several other stands. I missed Bodhitree's STRAWBERRIES because I was late, but they should have them again on Friday. Cherry Lane also has spinach and sweet potatoes and Bodhitree has salad and other greens and herbs. Hoeffner and Kernan also have asparagus as well as other produce. To see who else is here today and what they've brought, check out: http://tinyurl.com/8a9oedc
Monday, April 16, 2012 Greens, scapes, and young garlic are in!!
The market is looking up, with many good-looking herb and flowering plant sets available at Race, Phillips, Madura, Dutchmill, and others. Lani has tatsoi and other edible flowers and new lettuces, kales, mustard greens, and other Spring vegetables. Check out Andrew's bees at his honey stand. Otherwise, things are more or less as usual, with Raghoo's elk meat, Roaming Acres bison, pork, and beef, and PE&DD's delicious fish. Central Valley has a new product -- cream cheese -- and Dutchmill says they'll be having Dutch irises next week.
Click on this URL to see who's here and what they've brought in today: http://tinyurl.com/7l9yrfa
Saturday, April 14, 2012 S&SO Asparagus!! James Durr Lilacs!!
Silver Heights (herb and vegetable plant sets) and Binder (flowering plant and herb sets) are back!! Stokes has cut herbs, as do Paffenroth, Lani, and Monkshood. Shushan and Two Guys have hydroponic greens and herbs. Shushan has sweet cherry tomatoes and Two Guys has shitake mushrooms. Bulich is here with several mushroom varieties. D'Attolico, Lani, S&SO, Norwich, and others have young garlic, young shallots, and other green onion varieties. Stokes had some sorrel.
Seatuck is here with softshelled crabs, various clams, other shellfish, and fish. PE&DD has many kinds of fish and shellfish as well as salads and other prepared seafood dishes. Quattro's has smallish capons, turkey sausage, young chickens, rabbits, and other poultry and game items, as well as wild turkey, pheasant, and chicken eggs. Violet Hill has Belle Rouge chickens, sausages, and duck and various kinds of chicken eggs. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks, rillettes, and various other duck products.
See this URL for pictures: http://tinyurl.com/7mzjemk
Friday April 13, 2012 Consider Bardwell Goat Meat! Raghoo Elk Meat!
Rumors of strawberries and asparagus coming next week! Queens County Farm has two kinds of spinach -- one for salads and another for sauteeing or steaming. Stokes, Van Houten, Binder, Oak Grove, and others have flowering plant and herb sets. Dutchmill has gorgeous tulips. Bodhitree has beautiful new season greens, including Tuscan Kale and baby bok choi, young garlic, and crisp salad. Two Guys has hydroponic greens and Madura has several varieties of mushroom. Divine Brine has pickled vegetables and Hot Bread Kitchen has all kinds of interesting breads, including raisin challah and various flatbreads.
Northshire's Heads Up For Saturday-- Ramps! Ruby streaks mustard, baby bok choy, onions, chicken eggs, 5 goose eggs and 5 rabbits. It's going to be beautiful - get your shopping done early and then enjoy the day!
Mountain Sweet Berry, Lucky Dog, and others have ramps. Dancing Ewe is here with delicious cheeses. Check this URL for pix of stands and offerings in the Greenmarket: http://tinyurl.com/6wbsjpy
Monday, April 9, 2012 Mozzarella at Central Valley! Bison and Pork at Roaming Acres!! New Spinach at Lani's!!
Today I bought flounder from PE&DD, salad greens and baby spinach from Lani (and arugula and tatsoi flowers!), smoked duck breast from Hudson Valley Duck Farm, potatoes from Healthway, and beautiful tulips from Dutchmill. Spring flowers are everywhere in the market in pots and cut. Roaming Acres is now bringing in bison, pork, and beef in addition to ostrich eggs and meat. Madura has flowering plant and herb sets, as do Phillips and Race Farm. Race also has ramps.
To see who's in the market and what they've brought, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/83lytaz
Saturday, April 7, 2012 Flowers and flowering branches! Beautiful potted flowers and herbs! Many types and colors of egg!
Violet Hill has many kinds of chicken eggs in many colors. Northshire has quail eggs and chicken eggs. Quattro's has wild turkey, pheasant, and chicken eggs. Plenty of choices for Easter!
There are beautiful flowering branches and tulips, daffodils, and Dutch irises in the market, as well as roses, anemones, and other flowers. Check out James Durr, Locust Grove, Binder, and River Garden. Stokes, Hoeffner, and many others have potted flowering plants, and Stokes, Binder, Hoeffner, Oak Grove, and others have herb sets. Van Houten also has trees!
S&SO is back with SPRING BABY SPINACH!!! Ramps are rampant -- Mountain Sweet Berry and many others have them. D'Attolico has young onion family varieties as do S&SO, Paffenroth, Lani and others. Lani has a wide variety of greens.
Beth of Beth's Farm Kitchen will be doing demonstrations with her products today. Check out the ginger apricot sauce and the Blazing Tomato chutney! Check this for who's in Union Square today: http://tinyurl.com/7j9aq3g
Happy Easter and Passover, y'all!
Friday, April 6, 2012 Dancing Ewe's new cheese! Bodhitree's baby spinach! Mountain Sweet Berry's Ramps! Consider Bardwell's Cheeses (They'll have their meats this afternoon!)
Dutchmill has gorgeous parrot tulips, lily tulips, and other unusual tulips today. Dancing Ewe has yet another spot on the 17th Street side of the market. Bodhitree has sorrel, herbs, and greens. Binder is back with beautiful flowering plant and herb sets. Stokes has more cut herbs as well as flowering and herb sets and Queens County Farm Museum has their delicious salad mix and spinach. To see who else is here, check: http://tinyurl.com/cpsggg9
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 Bodhitree's Mint! Mountain Sweet Berry's Ramps!! Hudson Valley Duck Farm's Pet Food!!
There isn't much news today, aside from Oak Grove's TOMATO PLANTS and rumors of asparagus for next week -- maybe!!!! Today there are some new greens, but the main item around the market is flowers -- flowering branches, tulips, roses, anemones, daffodils. It bodes well for Friday and Saturday, when there will be plenty for Spring celebrations.
Hudson Valley's duck pet food patties look good -- treat your dog or cat!!
Monday, April 2, 2012 Beautiful if chilly! Ramps, ducks, elk meat, bison, ostrich!!
It's a smallish but exotic Greenmarket today, with all sorts of special items. In addition to Race's ramps, Hudson Valley Duck Farm's ducks and duck products, Roaming Acres ostrich and emu eggs and bison, pork, and ostrich meat, there are delicious fresh fish (PE&DD), young garlic and shallots (Lani), and all sorts of honey (Andrew's).
I bought flounder, spinach, and baking potatoes (Healthway), as well as gorgeous tulips (Dutchmill). Dutchmill also has herb flats and Phillips and Race have flowering plant flats and produce. Consider Bardwell has their chips and cheese, but didn't bring meat in today. (They'll be here with meats on Friday.) See the following URL for pictures of today's Greenmarket: http://tinyurl.com/7lqe9tx
Saturday, March 31, 2012 It's cold and grim, but the market is starting to show signs of Spring! Lani has young garlic and other new season greens in addition to the winter kales and new edible flowers. Mountain Sweet Berry has ramps and a few stands have spinach. Shushan has tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and herbs, and Stokes has cut herbs as well as herb and flowering plant flats. Oak Grove has a huge collection of potted herbs and Locust Grove, River Garden, Phillips, and others have flowering branches.
Bulich and D'Attolico are not here today, but Cayuga is here with their delicious breads, grains, and beans. Quattro's has goodlooking pheasants, rabbits, and other delicious poultry and game, and Flying Pig has pork sausages, bacon, and pork cuts. Oak Grove has beef and pork products as well as popping corn and pastries.
Hudson Valley Duck Farm has duck cuts, ducks, rillettes, and duck fat today. Cato Corners Farm has wonderful cheeses and Ronnybrook has many kinds of butter, milk, cream, yogurt, and ice cream.
Several plant nurseries are here with flowering and other plants and Beth's Farm Kitchen has a delicious new ginger apricot sauce. There's plenty to see once you adjust to the drizzle!
Friday, March 30, 2012 Queens County Farm Museum and Bodhitree have edible flowers!
Stokes has beautiful flowering plant and herb sets, as well as cut thyme and other herbs. Mountain Sweet Berry has something called toothwort that you might want to ask them about. Bodhitree has all sorts of greens, salad greens, and edible tatsoi and other flowers.
Beth's Farm Kitchen has a new ginger apricot item, very tasty and useable in many ways. Dutchmill has some unusual and beautiful tulips today, as well as daffodils. D&J has organic flowering Tuscan Kale. Dancing Ewe is here with delicious cheeses, back for the Spring!!
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Time Out
It's time for the World's Ice Skating Competition in Nice. Watching on a Mac isn't totally satisfying, but Time Warner doesn't have Universal Sports. Anyway, I'll be back in the Greenmarket on Saturday, but for now, it's all skating, all the time!
There were ramps in the market on Monday, so it might be worth looking for today. Happy hunting!!!
Monday, March 26, 2012 Race has plants AND ramps!!
Now that the season seems to be changing, I'm going to limit the report to talking about what I see that is new, which stands have returned, and which stands have finished their season, as I posted on Friday. Check Monday, March 19, for the regulars who are all here today.
Note: Roaming Acres has Berkshire pork and bison in addition to emu eggs and ostrich meat and eggs.
Saturday, March 24, 2012 Seatuck is here with several clam varieties, crabs, scallops, and many other kinds of fish and seafood!!
D'Attolico has young garlic, young onions, and several mini-greens. Cayuga is here with many beans, grains, flours, and their excellent breads. Lani has young shallots and edible tatsoi and garlic flowers. Paffenroth has beautiful young watercress, chamomile, and dandelion. Bulich has several kinds of mushroom and Two Guys has shitake and other mushrooms as well as hydroponic salad greens, mesclun mix, and mini-greens. Oak Grove has lush herb plants.
Locust Grove has cherry, plum, and peach flowering branches. River Garden also has beautiful flowering branches. Stokes has lovely flowering and herb plant sets and Van Houten has pretty flowering plant sets as well.
Quattro's has pheasant, wild turkey, and chicken eggs, and Violet Hill has interesting chicken egg varieties and duck eggs. Northshire has quail eggs and chicken eggs.
http://tinyurl.com/7psqpfc This URL may not work. If it doesn't, click on the URL above the report for pictures. Picasa's latest upgrade may have changed how I can post my picture notes.
Friday, March 23, 2012 Dancing Ewe is back with great cheeses!!
Now that the season seems to be changing, I'm going to limit the report to talking about what I see that is new, which stands have returned, and which stands have finished their season.
I'm happy to see Dancing Ewe back , in a new space at the East end of the market. Queens County Museum's stand has two kinds of spinach, baby kale, and good looking salad mix. Bodhitree says that their strawberry plants are flowering, so we should see their appearance some time towards the end of April. With such a warm day, I almost asked about the time frame for asparagus, but stopped myself! Don't want to rush things.
Other than the above, the offerings today are pretty much as they have been.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Stokes, Bodhitree, Shushan, Two Guys! Beth's Farm Kitchen!
Stokes has a wide variety of flowering plant and herb sets and the first of their cut herbs -- rosemary! Bodhitree has wintered over broccoli rabe and many other greens, edible flowers, herbs, and potatoes. Shushan and Two Guys have hydroponic greens and herbs and Shushan has tomatoes. Madura has vegetables and mushrooms and Miglorelli has root vegetables, apples, pears, frozen summer vegetables, ciders, and tomato juices. Caradonna and Breezy Hill have fruit and ciders, and Breezy Hill has hard cider as well.
Beth's Farm Kitchen will have a new and very tasty and useful product on Friday, a spiced apricot sauce that can be used on pork and chicken, or with cream cheese, or a number of other ways
Tamarack and others are here with meats and poultry. To see who's here and what they've brought, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7f6ay2y
Monday, March 19, 2012 Gorgeous day in Union Square Greenmarket!
Central Valley has their tomato parmesan soups, cheeses, eggs, and other items (and is having a sale on eggs today). Lani has all sorts of greens, lettuces, and edible flowers. Roaming Acres has bison, Berkshire pork, and emju and ostrich eggs, dog treats, and other ostrich items. Andrew's Honey is here along with Consider Bardwell's cheeses and meats and Hudson Valley Duck Farm's ducks and duck products (like duck bacon, smoked duck breast, rillettes, and duck pastrami).
Dutchmill flower farm has unique and beautiful tulips and River Garden has flowering branches. Phillips also has flowering branches and Buon Pane is here with interesting baked goods. Healthway has a wide variety of potatoes and Madura has several kinds of mushroom. D&J has vegetables and kimchee and Raghoo has elk meat.
To see who's here and what they've brought, click on this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7q3ohzj
Saturday, March 17, 2012 Stokes is back!! Cayuga is here!! Lani is here!!
Quattro's has wild turkey eggs!! Northshire has quail eggs and Violet Hill has their mixture of egg varieties. Roaming Acres has emu and ostrich eggs! Hudson Valley Duck Farm has duck bacon! Breakfast!!
Cayuga is here with their delicious breads, unique bean and grain selections, and flours. Stokes has beautiful flowering plant and herb sets and James Durr is here with flowering branches, daffodils, and tulips.
Beth's Farm Kitchen has jams and chutneys wrapped for St. Patrick's Day gifts and Phillips has flowering branches, tulips, and jams. Rick's Picks is here with pickled vegetables. River Garden has flowering branches and dried flower arrangements and Lavender by the Bay has dried lavender and various gift items.
Two Guys, Shushan, Windfall, and Lani have various greens and herbs. Violet Hill has chickens and sausages and Grazin' has Angus beef and other items. Quattro's has chickens, ducks, pheasants, and other wild and cultivated poultry. Cato Corners, Patches of Stars, Valley Shepherd, and Three Corner Field Farm have all kinds of cheeses, and Three Corner Field Farm, Catskill, Oak Grove, and others have meats.
To see who's here and what they've brought, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7vzg59s
Monday, March 12, 2012 Signs of Spring
Madura has potted flowering plants and Lani has edible flowers! Madura also has root vegetables, salad, and mushrooms. Lani has greens and lettuces. Otherwise we're still in Winter, no matter what the weather seems to be, and despite the blossoming magnolia trees.
Roaming Acres has bison, Berkshire pork, and ostrich meat, along with emu and ostrich eggs. Raghoo has elk meat, Hudson Valley has ducks and duck products, and PE&DD has fresh fish and seafood. Rising Sun has beef cuts. Consider Bardwell has veal and goat.
River Garden has flowering branches and pretty dried flower arrangements and a few stands have pussy willows, but Dutchmill isn't here today, so no tulips!
For who else is here and what they've brought, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7cubu8g
Saturday, March 10, 2012 Lani's Back On Saturdays! Cayuga's Back ONLY On Saturdays!
I had some sweet and tasty hydroponic cherry tomatoes from Shushan, who are here with herbs, lettuces, vine tomatoes, and cherry tomatoes today. Phillips is here with flowers and jams and Lani has many kinds of greens and eggs. Cayuga is here with their addictive ale bread, whole wheat bread, and beans, but were late this morning. Violet Hill has pork, chickens, and sausages. Monkshood has greens and Miglorelli has root vegetables, frozen summer vegetables, and juices.
To see who else is here and what they've brought, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7ovyq4l
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Oak Grove's Potted Herbs Are Back!! Mushrooms galore!!
Miglorelli has big purple kohlrabi and many other root vegetables, frozen summer vegetables, tomato juice, and ciders, in addition to pears and apples. Locust Grove has apples, pears, ciders, and cut flowering branches. Caradonna has apples and other fruit as well as ciders. Breezy Hill has ciders (hard and sweet), apples, and pastries.
Bodhitree has beautiful greens and Two Guys has hydroponic greens, herbs, and lettuces, as well as shitake and oyster mushrooms. Madura has root vegetables and many kinds of mushroom.
Tamarack has several types of meat and Pura Vida has good looking fish and shellfish. Beth's Farm Kitchen is here with jams, chutneys, and pickled vegetables, and Rick's Picks has many kinds of pickles as well.
Check this URL for more stands and produce: http://tinyurl.com/86jn9bm
Monday, March 5, 2012 Lani's Back!! Greens, edible flowers, lettuces!
I'm celebrating my successful eye surgery with Consider Bardwell's delicious cheese chips and Hudson Valley Duck Farm's luscious rillettes. I'm knocked out by the beautiful colors of Dutchmill's tulips and River Garden's lovely dried flower arrangements (as well as their pussy willows and flowering branches). In fact, I'm enjoying the deep and light greens of Lani's lettuces, edible flowers, and other goodies, and Healthway's tempting apples and potatoes. Madura's mushrooms and vegetables looked particularly attractive today, and Andrew's honeys with their various distinctive golden colors were tempting.
Central Valley's tomato sauce, soups, cheeses, and other products looked great, too, and Lavender By The Bay's gifts are pretty and appealing. All in all, this is a beautiful day in Union Square's Greenmarket. To see who else is here and what they've brought, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/85jjrkx
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 No flowers today!
Locust Grove does have flowering branches in addition to apples, pears, and cider. Caradonna has apples, pears, cider, too. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has duck bacon, rillettes, ducks, duck parts, and duck fat!! Bodhitree has greens and root vegetables, Two Guys and Shushan have hydroponic greens, and Rogowski is here with greens and other vegetables as well. Madura has good looking produce, too, as well as several mushroom varieties. Hot Bread Kitchen has several kinds of baked goods and Roaming Acres is here with ostrich meat. Windfall has greenhouse greens and Andrew's Honey is here as well. Beth's Farm Kitchen has jams, chutneys, and pickled vegetables.
To see who else is here, check out this URL:http://tinyurl.com/74vrmjk
Monday, February 27, 2012 BULLETIN!!! CAYUGA WILL BE IN UNION SQUARE, GREENPOINT, AND GRAND ARMY PLAZA GREENMARKETS ON SATURDAY, MARCH 3!!!
Saturday, February 25, 2012 Looks as if we may have lost Cayuga altogether! Unless they're late or staying out because of the high wind warnings, Cayuga seems to have decided not to come to the Greenmarket. I'm sad to lose them if that's the case. Anyway, they weren't here at 8:30 AM.
Here today, and most likely next Saturday: Bulich -- mushrooms
Two Guys -- greens, sprouts, mushrooms
Quattro's -- poultry, eggs, venison, soups, sausages
Violet Hill -- chickens (they'll have fewer next week), smoked pork items, fresh pork, various eggs, chicken parts
Hudson Valley Duck Farm -- Ducks, rillettes, smoked duck breast, duck livers, duck parts
Grazin' Angus -- Beef
Flying Pig -- sausages, pork cuts, chickens
Lavender by the Bay -- lavender products
Our Daily Bread -- bread, scones, baked goods
Nemeth -- apple sauces, pies, muffins
Beth's Farm Kitchen -- jams, chutneys, gifts
Miglorelli -- root vegetables, juices, ciders.
Paffenroth -- many varieties of potato, onion, some unique root vegetables
Mountain Sweet Berry -- small European style potatoes, potato chips
Rose Meadow -- roses, anemones, other flowers
Cato Corner Farm -- Delicious cheeses
Three Corner Field Farm -- cheeses, yogurts, all kinds of lamb cuts, wool,soap
Norwich Meadows Farm -- root vegetables and greens
For these and other stands here this week and next Saturday, click on: http://tinyurl.com/7xpahng
Friday, February 24, 2012 Cayuga will only be in Union Square, Grand Army Plaza, and one other market on Saturdays!!
It's like any other addiction -- it's tough to break my midweek ale bread habit now that Cayuga is only available on Saturdays! The Finnish Ruis black bread is terrific and Hot Bread Kitchen and others are here on Fridays, too, but I'm missing that bread, flour, bean selection, and grain selection from Cayuga.
There were many stands here today, and they'll be here next Friday when I'll be gone for the weekend, so here's some of who's here -- Bodhitree's produce, Pura Vida's beautiful winter fishes (herrings, monkfish, mackerel and others), Divine Brine's pickles, Beth's jams and chutneys, Flying Pig's pork cuts and sausages, Queens Farm Museum with greens and wools, and Sun Fed Beef.
Check this URL for pictures of who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/7ux97kp
Monday, February 20, 2012 Roaming Acres Has Bison, Pork, Ostrich meat and Emu and Ostrich eggs.
Central Valley has delicious butter, yogurts, and yogurt drinks in addition to various cheeses, soups, and sauces. Dutchmill is here with greenhouse tulips. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has rillettes, sausage, fresh duck, and other duck products. Consider Bardwell has cheeses, cheese chips, veal, and goat meat. Ragoo has elk and other meats. Race and Red Jacket have apples and pears.
Madura has mushrooms and D&J has vegetables and kimchee. Healthway has various potatoes and Buon Panna has breads and other baked goods. PE&DD has fresh fish and cooked lobsters.
Check this URL to see who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/7c5ujwj
Saturday, February 18, 2012 Violet Hill and Flying Pig have chicken soup meat!
Violet Hill also has beautiful chickens, chicken parts, fresh pork cuts, sausages, and various eggs. Flying Pig has sausages, pork cuts, and soup chickens (their roasters were gone by 9AM! Quattro's has guinea hens, capons, pheasants, and other poultry and Northshire has chicken, duck, and quail eggs. Three Corner Field Farm is here with good looking lamb cuts, cheeses, yogurts, soaps, and wools, and Catskill Merino has sausages, lamb cuts, and wools.
Cayuga is not here today. Our Daily Bread has breads, scones, and other baked goods, and Nemeth, Breezy Hill, and Oak Grove have all sorts of pastries. Breezy Hill, Caradonna, and Locust Grove have apples, pears, and ciders.
Norwich Meadows and Paffenroth have many kinds of root vegetables and Two Guys is here with hydroponic greens and mushrooms. Shushan has hydroponic tomatoes, cucumbers, and greens.
To see who's here and what they've brought, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7naadaj
Friday, February 17, 2012 Queens County Farm Museum has baby spinach!
Queens County Farm, Bodhitree, D&J, Windfall, and others have greens and other vegetables. Rogowsky and Miglorelli also have a wide variety of produce and Flying Pig has pork cuts and chickens. Dutchmill has beautiful tulips and Rose Meadow has anemones and roses. Mountain Sweet Berry has all kinds of small potatoes and potato chips. Samascott and others have apples, pears, and ciders. Pura Vida has delicious looking fresh fish.
To see who's here and what they've brought, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7n2c2zs
Monday, February 13, 2012 Dutchmill has beautiful tulips! Rose Meadow has lovely roses and anemones!!
The Greenmarket has come through with beautiful flowers for Valentine's Day and great treats -- Hudson Valley smoked duck breast, Consider Bardwell for tasty cheeses and chips, and the lavender people for gifts. Roaming Acres has Berkshire pork, bison, and ostrich and Ragoo has elk and other interesting meats. Madura has many kinds of mushroom and salad greens and Tello has several sizes of egg. The Monday Greenmarket is small but terrific!
There are many other stands with fish, bread, apples, pears, cider, jams, and pastries.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 Well, it's nastyish out, but not too nasty to find great stuff today in the Greenmarket.
Violet Hill has all sorts of fresh pork cuts (smoked next week) and their unusual chicken egg varieties, as well as Belle Rouge chickens and chicken parts. Northshire has vegetables, including cabbages and rutabagas. (Check out last week's New York Magazine for a recipe for rutabagas! Windfall may have them, too.)
Monkshood, Shushan, D'Attolico, Windfall, and Two Guys all have interesting greens. Shushan has cherry tomatoes and vine tomatoes, and Two Guys has shitake mushrooms. Bulich has many kinds of mushrooms and Miglorelli, Norwich, and Paffenroth have many kinds of root vegetables and some greens. D'Attolico has young garlic and sprouts.
Roaming Acres has ostrich, Flying Pig has pork cuts and sausages, Quattro's has poultry, including ducks and geese, and Northshire has good-looking ducks. Hudson Valley Duck farm also has tasty fresh ducks as well as delicious charcuterie. Cayuga has addictive ale bread, delicious whole wheat bread, grains, beans, and oils. Rose Meadow has beautiful roses on sale today.
Check out this URL for these and other stands in the Greenmarket today: http://tinyurl.com/7ld8wud
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Dutchmill and Bodhitree are back!!!
Just when I was getting discouraged about having anything new to tell you, Bodhitree has returned! Nevia has beautiful greens and Japanese sweet potatoes, along with other produce. And Dutchmill is here with lovely tulips. Bodhitree will be here on Wednesdays and Fridays and Dutchmill will be here on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, depending on the weather. Cato is here with their bimonthly Wednesday cheeses. Rogowski is here with a variety of good looking vegetables.
The rest of the market is as it has been for the last few weeks, so you can depend on seeing breads from Cayuga, meats from Tamarack, Roaming Acres, and others, jams and chutneys from Beth's Farm Kitchen, apples and ciders from Locust Grove and others, and flowers from Rose Meadow. River Garden has dried flower arrangements and the Lavender people are here with gift items and edible lavender. See January 25's report for other stands you'll find today also.
Monday,February 6, 2012 Dutchmill Tulips are Back!!! Consider Bardwell Has Veal and Goat Products!!
I'm so glad to see Dutchmill back in the market, but it is really early, product of this strangely warm winter. They'll be here on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! Consider Bardell has brought in their delicious cheeses and chips and has started offering various cuts of veal and goat meat. A few stands have the Japanese sweet potato varieties we've come to love recently, and PE&DD have gorgeous fresh scallops and fish.
Healthway has interesting potato varieties and Red Jacket and Race have plenty of apples and ciders. I'm eating one of Race's sugar donuts right now -- I shouldn't, but I am! Hudson Valley Duck Farm is here with all sorts of duck products and ducks, and Andrew's Honey and the Lavender people are here -- How about ducks with a honey and lavender glaze?!
To see what these and other stands have brought in, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7p6edfs
Saturday, February 4, 2012 Aracuna eggs! Shitake Mushrooms! Cayuga's Ale Bread!
Well, it's more or less the same crew as last Saturday, but Cayuga has delicious grains and beans in addition to their great bread, Monkshood has sweet carrots and tasty greens, and Violet Hill's interesting egg varieties are back with some changes in feed. Check this URL for who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/7cuns35
Saturday, January 28, 2012 Salsify, Black Radishes, Jerusalem Artichokes, Creminis
There are plenty of interesting vegetables in the market today, including Shushan's tasty cherry tomatoes, D'Attolico's young onions and sprouts, Two Guys' lettuces, herbs, and shitake mushrooms, and a wide selection of root vegetables from Paffenroth, Windfall, and Miglorelli.
Quattro's has delicious poultry, sausages, venison and venison products, and GOOSE EGGS!!! They also have chicken and DUCK EGGS. Northshire has chicken eggs and Violet Hill has great Belle Rouge chicken and chicken parts, and eggs. Cayuga has amazing ale bread and whole wheat bread as well as grains and beans.
Cato Corner has succulent cheeses (my favorites -- Brigid's Abbey, Dairyaire, and Farmstead). Patches of Sky and Valley Shepherd Artisinal also have tasty cheeses. Ronnybrook is here with butters, milks, ice creams, and yogurts, and Tonjes has buttermilk, yogurt, and cheeses.
For these and other stands, check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/82bclac
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Cayuga is back! Shushan has great hydroponic cherry tomatoes!
It's basically the usual winter Greenmarket today, with the usual very special stands. Hudson Valley Duck Farm is here with duck bacon, smoked duck breast, rillettes, and, of course, ducks and other duck products. Silva's Orchids are here -- beautiful as ever. Andrew's Honey, Cayuga's breads, grains, and beans, Hot Bread Kitchen's baked goods, Madura's mushrooms, and Mountain Sweet Berry's delicious small potatoes and potato chips are here. Three Corner Field Farm has beautiful lambskin rugs in addition to their lamb cuts, yogurts, and cheeses. Pura Vida has smoked fish as well as shellfish and fresh fish. Ronnybrook is here with milks, creams,butters, ice creams, creme fraiche, and cheeses. Locust Grove, Caradonna, and Terhune have apples and ciders and Miglorelli has root vegetables, tomato sauces and juices, apples, pears, and ciders, as well as frozen summer vegetables.
For these and others, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7jscav9
Saturday, January 21, 2012 A surprisingly strong complement of farmstands are here today!
Flying Pig, Violet Hill chickens and eggs, Northshire vegetables, Paffenroth,vegetables, Beth's for jam, Deep Mountain maple products, Two Guys and Shushan with hydroponic lettuces and tomatoes,Our Daily Bread, Windfall with salad and root vegetables, Patches of Sky (goat cheese), Three Corner Field Farm (lamb, cheese, yogurt), Tonjes (cheese and buttermilk, yogurt), Norwich Meadows root and green vegetables, Catskill Merino lamb, Caradonna and Breezy Hill apples and ciders, Nemeth and Breezy Hill pastries, Rick's Picks pickles, and several others.
For these and others, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/6wnt79a
Friday, January 20, 2012 Pura Vida, Flying Pig, John Fazio, and more!
This Friday's market is a duplicate, for the most part, of last Friday's, so I think this is the Winter Market for a while. Plenty of root vegetables, a surprising variety of greens at Norwich Meadow's stand, and good looking vegetables at Rogowski's as well. Miglorelli has those AND some interesting frozen vegetables. If you're in the mood for pickles, stop off at Divine Brine or Beth's Farm Kitchen. Beth's also has their seasonal Meyer Lemon and Blood Orange marmlades. John Fazio made their rabbit sausage into links this week. No Cayuga today.
See this URL for these and other stands: http://tinyurl.com/7gf4yoh
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Windy and getting colder, but an interesting market today!
Hudson Valley Duck Farm -- ducks and delicious duck products (rillettes, duck salami, smoked duck breast, etc.) Cayuga -- grains, beans, breads. Rick's Picks -- pickled vegetables. Pura Vida -- Fresh fish and shellfish. Beth's Farm Kitchen --- jams, chutneys, pickled vegetables, apple sauce. Madura -- great choice of mushrooms, root vegetables, fresh garlic.
Two Guys and Shushan -- Hydroponic vegetables and herbs. Our Daily Bread, Hot Bread Kitchen -- assorted baked goods. Mountain Sweet Berry -- small potatoes and potato chips. Miglorelli -- Tomato sauce, soup, juice, parsnips, red and green kohlrabi, pears, apples, pear and apple cider. Breezy Hill -- Hard cider, cider, apples, pastries. Knoll Krest -- pastas, eggs. Locust Grove, Caradonna -- apples, cider. To see what these and others have brought in today, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7y2suzu
Monday, January 16, 2012 New Beef Purveyer in Monday's Market -- Rising Sun Beef
Race and Red Jacket are here with apples, vegetables, ciders, and other apple products. Phillips has greens, root vegetables, jams, and squashes. Healthway has potatoes and apples.Truncillito has apples. D&J has greens, root vegetables, and kimchi. PE&DD have fresh fish and shellfish, including cooked lobsters. Roaming Acres has Berkshire pork, bison, and ostrich meat. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks and duck products. Central Valley has sauces, soups, butter, cheese, eggs, and a new product, flavored yogurts. Consider Bardwell has cheeses and addictive baked cheese chips.
To see what these and other stands in the market have brought in, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7gy7b4m
Saturday, January 14, 2012 New Greenhouse in the Greenmarket, with two kinds of spinach and other greens!
You would think there could be nothing new to report during the winter, but there is actually Monkshood, with salad and other greens. Shushan is also here with tasty hydroponic cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, herbs, and greens, and Two Guys has herbs, sprouts, greens, and salad. Many of our stands are gone, but there are plenty here on Saturdays, including Quattro's (game,poultry, eggs), Violet Hill (Belle Rouge chickens and parts, eggs), Flying Pig (pork, chickens, sausages), Grazing (beef and other meats), Roaming Acres (ostrich meat), Oak Grove (Beef and pork), and others, for protein.
Paffenroth and Miglorelli have root vegetables, Cato , Patches of Sky, and others have cheeses, and Ronnybrook and Milk Thistle have dairy products. Beth's Farm Kitchen has jams, chutneys, and pickled vegetables and Tremblay has honeys. Deep Mountain has maple products and Cayuga is here with grains, beans, breads, and other unique items. Northshire has eggs and vegetables and Hoeffner is here with root vegetables and cabbages. D'Attolico has many kinds of sprout as well as some greens.
To see what these and other stands have on offer, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7seg7m6
Friday, January 13, 2012 New Beef Purveyor in Friday's Market -- "Sun Fed Beef"
They've been in other Greenmarkets uptown, but Sun Fed Beef has made their first appearance in the Friday Union Square market today. The winter schedule seems pretty set, with the stands here today planning to be here all winter Fridays. Cayuga is not here today. John Fazio is here with delicious chickens, rabbits, ducks, duck and chicken eggs and livers, and a new product, rabbit sausage.
Rogowski has parsnips today, so if you liked New York Magazine's recipe this past week, you've got a source. They also have other root vegetables, salads, broccoli, and greens. Two Guys is here with hydroponic lettuces, greens, herbs, and at least one beautiful squash blossom. Madura has mushrooms and D&J has root vegetables, greens, and kimchi. Divine Brine has many kinds of pickle and Samascott has root vegetables, apples, pears, ciders, and many kinds of potato. Mountain Sweet Berry has tiny potatoes and potato chips. Beth's Farm Kitchen has jams, chutneys, and pickled vegetables.
See this URL for these and other stands in Union Square today: http://tinyurl.com/7zv9c8f
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Bodhitree has root vegetables and greens today and will be taking a break from the market for three weeks. Hoeffner is here with cabbages and potatoes. Miglorelli has root vegetables, cider, and tomato juice. Cato Corner is here with cheeses and Three Corner Field Farm has lamb cuts, cheeses, yogurts, and other sheep items. Pura Vida has shellfish and beautiful fresh fish. Andrew's Honey is here as well as Windfall's root vegetables and greenhouse greens. Mountain Sweet Berry has many kinds of tiny potato as well as potato chips.
Madura has root vegetables, greens, and many kinds of mushroom. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks, rillettes, smoked duck breast, and other delicious duck items. Rogowski has greens and root vegetables and Shushan has tasty cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, and other hydroponically raised vegetables and herbs. Cayuga is here with delicious breads, grains, beans, and other items. Hot Bread Kitchen has breads and other baked goods. Max Creek Fishery has smoked and fresh trout. Greener Pastures has a new bus!!
To see who's here and what they've brought in, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/6qmdmdu
Saturday, January 7, 2012 Most stands here today will be coming all winter. Ask your favorites about their schedules.
Paffenroth is back with root vegetables. D'Attolico is here with good-looking mache and other greens. Miglorelli has root vegetables, apples, pears, tomato juice, apple cider, and other goodies. Norwich has winter greens, root vegetables, and canned items. S&SO has various onions, potatoes, greens, and cut squash for soups and other uses. Mountain Sweet Berry has potatoes and potato chips and Windfall has delicious hothouse items and root vegetables. Shushan has tasty cherry tomatoes, tomatoes, herbs, and salad greens (hydroponic). Northshire is here with root and other vegetables.
Violet Hill, Flying Pig, Quattro's, Roaming Acres, Grazin', and others are here with poultry, pork, beef, and other meats. Tonjes is here with buttermilk and other items and Ronnybrook has milks, butters, yogurts, creams, and ice creams (although no Ginger Creme Brulee today!). Cato is here with great cheeses and Three Corner Field Farm has delicious yogurt and cheeses in addition to lamb cuts. Catskill Merino has all sorts of lamb sausages and cuts. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks, duck parts, rillettes, smoked duck breast, and other duck products. Bulich has several kinds of mushroom.
Gone for the season: Stokes, James Durr. Breezy Hill is here, but their cranberry season is over.
Check this URL for which stands are here:http://tinyurl.com/7p2q3af
Fridqy, January 6, 2012 Bodhitree -- Nevia says that due to the mild weather they will still have produce next Wednesday -- Greens, root vegetables. Norwich Meadows -- Greens, root vegetables, squashes, and other produce. Samascott -- apples, pears, ciders, potatoes, onions. Divine Brine -- pickled vegetables. Flying Pig -- pork sausages,pork roasts and other pork cuts, chickens.
John Fazio -- ducks and duck parts, chickens and chicken parts, rabbits and rabbit parts, duck and chicken livers, duck and chicken eggs. Queens County Farm Museum -- salad mix, dried peppers, wools, honey. Miglorelli -- vegetables, apples, pear(sale). Pura Vida -- fresh fish, delicious smoked bluefish, shellfish. Hot Bread Kitchen -- breads and other baked goods. Lavender By The Bay -- lavender products. Roaming Acres -- Ostrich meat. Rogowski -- greens and root vegetables. Two Guys -- Hydroponic salad greens and herbs, mushrooms. Mountain Sweet Berry -- Small potatoes and potato chips.
To see these and others, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7vv6sd4
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Amazingly enough, the Greenmarket is here with plenty of produce and other items!!
Miglorelli has apples, pears, root vegetables, tomato juice, and cider, as well as donuts. Madura has mushrooms and other produce and Shushan is here with hydroponic tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, lettuces, and other vegetables and herbs. Caradonna, Locust Grove, Breezy Hill, and others have apples, pears, ciders, and other items. Cayuga has ale bread, whole wheat loaves, beans, oils, flours, and grains. Hot Bread Kitchen has breads, crackers, and other baked goods. Breezy Hill and others have pastries. Mountain Sweet Berry has tiny potatoes and various kinds of potato chip.
Tamarack has pork products, Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks and duck products, and Pura Vida has fresh fish and seafood. Roaming Acres has ostrich meat. Three Corner Field Farm has lamb cuts, yogurt, cheeses, wools, and soaps. Rogowski has root vegetables, salad, and other greens. Hawthorne Valley Farm has breads, cheeses, produce, and other items. The lavender stand is here and Windfall Farm has root vegetables and unique greens. Max Creek Hatchery has smoked trout and fresh trout. Patches of Sky has cheeses. Two Guys From Woodbridge has hydroponic lettuces, herbs, mini greens, and other items. Stony Mountain has Piedmontese beef.
See this URL for what's available: http://tinyurl.com/6nhnoqy
Monday, January 2, 2012 Tiny Greenmarket With Interesting Choices! (HAPPY NEW YEAR!!)
Tello is here with fresh eggs. Raghoo has elk meat! Roaming Acres has ostrich meat, Berkshire pork, and bison. Race and Red Jacket have apples and pears and Race has other produce and pastries as well. Central Valley has butter this week as well as cheeses, eggs, and tomato sauce and soup. Consider Bardwell is here with cheeses and chips and Madura has mushrooms and produce. Bread Alone, the lavender stand, and D&J produce and kimchi are also here. Healthway has potatoes and produce.
Check this URL: http://tinyurl.com/7twjwp8
Saturday, December 31, 2011 There's a New Year's Eve Day Market!! Planning to leave around 2PM, though.
Flying Pig -- Pork and poultry. Three Corner Field Farm -- Lamb cuts, yogurts, cheeses. Catskill Merino Sheep Farm -- lamb cuts, sausages, other lamb products. Grazin' Acres -- meats and poultry. Finnish Ruis breads -- Great with cheeses. Ronnybrook -- Milks, butters, creams, yogurts, ice creams, cheeses, creme fraiche. Cato Corners Farm -- Delicious cheeses. Tundra Brewery -- Artisanal beers. Shushan -- Hydroponic tomatoes and greens.
Bulich -- Several kinds of mushroom. Caradonna, Locust Grove, Breezy Hill -- apples, pears, ciders. Hudson Valley Duck Farm -- Ducks, smoked duck cuts, rillettes, salami. Rose Meadow -- Roses and anemones. Beth's Farm Kitchen -- Jams and chutneys. Tonjes -- Buttermilk, yogurts, cheeses. Hoeffner, S&SO, Windfall,and others -- winter squashes, onions, root vegetables. Breezy Hill -- Cranberries!! Rick's Picks -- Pickled vegetables. Mountain Sweet Berry -- small potatoes and unique potato chips! Valley Shepherd Creamery -- Artisanal cheeses. Milk Thistle -- Milks and yogurt. Our Daily Bread -- Breads. Patches O' Stars -- Cheeses. Nemeth and Breezy Hill -- Cakes, cookies, pastries.
See this URL for pictures of available items: http://tinyurl.com/8aam4gz
Friday, December 30, 2011 Small but excellent market today! Bodhitree's last day until February!
Quattro's, Flying Pig, and John Fazio are here with excellent poultry, game, and pork. Rogowski, Miglorelli, Two Guys, and Bodhitree are here with tasty produce and other items. Samascott and others have apples, pears, cider, and pastries. River Garden and Rose Meadow have dried and fresh flowers, and Beth's Farm Kitchen has preserves and pickled vegetables. Bobolink has delicious cheeses and Hot Bread Kitchen is here with all sorts of breads and other baked goods. Mountain Sweet Berry has tiny potatoes and three kinds of unique potato chips. Madura has a variety of mushrooms. D&J has fresh produce and kimchi. Roaming Acres has ostrich meat and Pura Vida has fresh fish and shellfish. For more of who's here and what they've brought, check out this URL: http://tinyurl.com/6t2shsa
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Trapped at home!
Hi! I'm stuck here waiting for a delivery and for a repair, but I can tell you that Violet Hill is here today (they Tweeted!) with poultry, pork, and eggs! They won't be here on Saturday! Cayuga is here today after all! Several stands are gone for at least a month, but many are here, including Roaming Acres (Ostrich meat), S&SO (produce), Rose Meadow (roses and anemones), the lavender stand, Mountain Sweet Berry, Red Jacket, and others.
BULLETINS: Friday will be Nevia's last day until February (Bodhitree). Violet Hill will be back on Saturdays starting January 7. Ronnybrook will be here on Saturday, December 31, but only until 2PM.
Monday, December 26, 2011 Just about every stand here today will be here next Monday as well! Tello's eggs, here today, will also be here Wednesday and Friday and next Monday. Madura's mushrooms and produce will also be here (check them to see if they have celeriac -- hard to find this year). Central Valley will be here with cheeses, tomato soups and sauces, and eggs. Consider Bardwell will have cheeses and cheese crisps (addictive -- I'm planning to serve them New Year's Day with pumpkin soup). Healthway has great potatoes - many kinds -- and Race is here with produce and pastries. Roaming Acres has pork, bison, and ostrich meat today and will be here next Monday as well.
Check here for who's here today and who will be here next Monday: http://tinyurl.com/c7rr59h
Saturday, December 24, 2011 Christmas Eve Day Bulletin Saturday Haven't been to the Gmarket yet but I do know some of the stands that will be there, including Violet Hill for poultry, pork, and eggs, Beth's Farm Kitchen for jams, chutneys, gifts, Ronnybrook for milk, eggnog, butters, ice creams, and other milk products, Bulich for mushrooms. I'll be going out in a minute to check for others.
Okay -- I'm back! Here's a fuller list:
Violet Hill with poultry and pork, including gorgeous big turkeys. Flying Pig with hams, sausages, leaf lard, leaf lard pie crust, chickens, bacon. Keith with vegetables and Rocambole garlic for gifts (his last day for the season -- back next June!). Van Houten and others with Christmas trees and other decorations. Mountain Sweet Berry with three kinds of potato chips wrapped together as gifts or single, potatoes, and beautiful wreaths. River Garden with lovely dried flower arrangements and unique Christmas decorations. Three Corner Field Farm with tasty lamb products and gift items. Knoll Krest with many kinds of fresh pasta. Cato Corners with wonderful and interesting cheeses. S&SO with many kinds of produce, including squashes, beautiful little carrots, all kinds of onions, potatoes, greens, and gift items.
Check this URL for pictures of these and others here today in Union Square: http://tinyurl.com/7s7c4pl
Friday, December 23, 2011 Many Friday and Saturday Stands Here Today Will Also Be Here Next Friday!
Beth's Farm Kitchen -- Jams, chutneys, wrapped gifts. Divine Brine -- pickled vegetables for gifts. Stokes -- Cut herbs, herb wreaths, potted lettuces, greens. Quattro's -- (Here today and next Friday) -- Beautiful geese, ducks,pheasants,capons, sausages, venison, chicken and duck parts. John Fazio --(Here today and next Friday) -- Ducks, chickens, rabbit, parts. Pura Vida is here today with fish and shellfish for 13 fishes! Tamarack and Flying Pig are here with pork and other meats. Roaming Acres -- Ostrich meat. Queens County Farm Museum -- Gorgeous carrots, spinach, greens, wreaths. Muddy River -- Root vegetables. Madura -- many kinds of mushroom. Norwich and Bodhitree -- root vegetables, greens, squashes. (Next Friday will be Bodhitree's last until next Spring. Oak Grove -- Last day until mid-January. Pastries, beef, pork, dried peppers. Samascott -- many kinds of potato, apple, pear, as well as cider. Check out this URL for what produce is available today: http://tinyurl.com/75culgd
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Last Day For Paffenroth, Blue Moon Fish!!
Garden of Spices will be at Abingdon Square for the winter, but this is today's last appearance at Union Square until spring. Stokes is also gone until Spring after today (They have great cut herbs today, as well as herb wreaths for gifts.). Keith is here today and will be here Saturday, December 24, but will be gone until late Spring after that. If you want cranberries, better get to Union Square today and check out the excellent variety at Breezy Hill's stand. Ask if they'll still have them this weekend.
Many stands will be here Friday, but Saturday will be much quieter, so check with your farmer if you're planning for Greenmarket produce. Madura will be here Friday and Bulich on Saturday, so you're okay for mushrooms. Mountain Sweet Berry is here with potatoes and potato chips and will be here Friday and Saturday. Bodhitree will be here Friday with produce and Rogowski is here today. S&SO will be here Saturday with produce and gifts and Miglorelli is here today.See this URL for what's here today: http://tinyurl.com/72qojfb
Monday, December 19, 2011 Lani's Last Day!
It's Lani's last day for the season, which is the only definite answer I got to "will you be here next week" from most stands. Healthway will be here next Monday, with a few others, but other stands will either be gone for just a couple of weeks or gone until Spring. The best thing to do is ask, but not everyone knows!
Norwich, Lani, Race, Hudson Valley Duck Farm, Consider Bardwell cheeses, Madura mushrooms and other produce, Red Jacket with apples, pears, ciders, and juices, and River Garden with dried flower arrangements are all here. Central Valley is here and says they'll be here next Monday, with soups, pasta sauces, eggs, and cheese. PE&DD is here with shellfish and other seafood. Raghoo will be here Saturday as well as today with poultry. Check this URL for who's here and what they've brought in today: http://tinyurl.com/73u8897
Saturday, December 17, 2011 Check with your favorite stands to see who will be here next Friday and Saturday. Today is Paffenroth's and Northshire's last Saturday until January 7. Many stands will be here next Friday (Quattro's and many others) OR Saturday -- or both, so today's the day to find out which. Some stands will be here next week and then not until January 13 or 14. I must confess that it got pretty confusing.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 Most Wednesday stands will be here next week as well.
Mountain Sweet Berry has brought back their potato chips -- three varieties -- as well as various small potatoes and Christmas decorations. There are other stands with Christmas trees, wreaths, and rope, including Van Houten. Beth's Farm Kitchen has a great selection of wrapped jams and chutneys for gifts and S&SO and Miglorelli have good gift choices as well.
Paffenroth was affected seriously by the floods and weather this summer and Fall and have fewer potato varieties than usual, but they have excellent onion family and potato choices. Madura and Bulich have tasty mushroom varieties and Tamarack, Rogowsky, Miglorelli, S&SO, Stokes, Bodhitree, and others have a variety of greens and other vegetables. Bodhitree still has Tuscan kale, for instance, as well as interesting Japanese sweet potatoes. Stokes and Keith have cut herbs. Shushan has hydroponic tomatoes and herbs and they and Two Guys have various lettuces.
Check with your favorite stands to find out who will be here Christmas Eve day or Friday, December 23. Check this URL to see which stands are here today and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/7vht7lw
Saturday, December 10, 2011 Beth of Beth's Farm Kitchen demonstrates chili today !!
Check with your favorite stands today and next Saturday if you're planning to buy produce or poultry for the holidays. Many stands normally here on Saturday will be here on Friday, December 23, but not on Saturday.
Order your Christmas goose from Quattro's today. They're here with venison, poultry, eggs, sausages, and smoked poultry. Violet Hill is here with bacon, pork cuts, and Belle Rouge chickens. Flying Pig has sausages, pork cuts, and chickens. Grazin' is here with meats and poultry.
Next week will be D'Attolico's last week until the middle of January, as well as the last week for Cherry Lane's excellent spinach, sweet potatoes, and other produce. Check with other stands like Paffenroth and Miglorelli to see if they'll be here past next weekend. Paffenroth still has a fairly wide range of produce including upland cress and hard to find root vegetables, and S&SO is still here with many vegetables. Oak Grove has great looking pumpkins as well as tasty pies. Cato has some knockout cheeses and Three Corner Field Farm is here with lamb, sheep's milk yogurt and cheese, and they'll definitely be here on Christmas Eve Day with lamb. Check this URL for stands here today: http://tinyurl.com/cllyyh7
Friday, December 9, 2011 Lots of Gift Choices Today!
Beth's Farm Kitchen, Tweefontein, Roaming Acres, and Divine Brine all have interesting gift choices, including jams, chutneys, pickled vegetables, great recipe books (Beth), herbal items both edible and otherwise (Tweefontein), Roaming Acres (ostrich and emu items), and a range of pickles and chutneys (Divine Brine). Cayuga is here with great breads, flours, grains, beans, and oils that would all make great house gifts.
Rogowsky, Norwich, Bodhitree, and Queens County Farm Museum all have good-looking produce offerings and should be here on the Friday before Christmas. Madura will also be here with mushrooms and Pura Vida will have fish and seafood, especially for Seven Fishes. Miglorelli has tasty tomato juice and sauce, in addition to a large selection of produce (including lovely big fennel bulbs). Check this URL for most of who's here today: http://tinyurl.com/7ckcvq4
Saturday, December 3, 2011 Cranberries, Tiny Turnips, Winter Squashes
Order your Christmas birds and meats now from Quattro's, Violet Hill, Flying Pig, Oak Grove, Grazin' Acres, and others. Breezy Hill has beautiful fresh cranberries and S&SO has bunches of tiny turnips to roast under your bird along with Stokes Farm's excellent small Yukon Gold and other potatoes or Mountain Sweet Berry's roasting mix.
D'Attolico has tasty greens and sprouts and Bulich has a great selection of mushrooms. Stokes has excellent cut herbs, greens, and winter squashes. Cherry Lane has luscious cauliflower, spinach, greens, sweet potatoes, and other delicious produce. Oak Grove has pies, pork and beef cuts, and squashes. Van Houten and Mountain Sweet Berry have Christmas decorations, including wreaths, greenery ropes, and trees. Beth's For Jam has beautifully wrapped jams and chutneys for gifts, along with her excellent cookbook with recipes for and with their preserves and chutneys.
I'll be checking with the farmers to find out who will be here on Christmas Eve day and New Year's Eve day for next week's report. See this URL for what's here today: http://tinyurl.com/83zhh89
Friday, December 2, 2011 Christmas Trees and Decorations
Well, there's nothing new, but there's plenty of good stuff here. Beth Linsky of Beth's Farm Kitchen will be doing a demo at the Greenmarket table and there are many tasty greens and root vegetables to be had. Miglorelli has good looking fennel and Two Guys, Bodhitree, Miglorelli, D&J, and others have tasty looking greens and salad. John Fazio has ducks, chickens, rabbits, eggs, and livers as well as poultry parts, and Cayuga and Hot Bread Kitchen have great breads. Cayuga has excellent dried beans and grains as well as flours. Check out a newish stand, Lucky Dog Organics, for greens and other vegetables. The lavender stand and Beth's Farm Kitchen are here as well. There is fresh fish available and Madura is here with mushrooms.
Monday, November 28, 2011 Duck Rillettes, All Sorts of Potato, Greens, Cheese Chips
It's a smallish market and some farmers, like Maxwell's, are gone for the winter, but there are plenty of good things to be had today. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has rillettes, duck sausage, ducks, duck legs for confit, and duck fat for frying potatoes. Healthway has a wide variety of interesting potatoes and Madura has many kinds of mushroom as well as good looking produce. Race has pastries, apples, cider, squashes, and other vegetables, and Norwich Meadows Farm has all sorts of root vegetables and greens. Central Valley has eggs, soups, and cheeses, and Tello has eggs in various sizes.
Lani is here with many vegetables, including braising greens, salad greens, root vegetables, and many kinds of cauliflower, in Maxwell's location at 17th Street. Consider Bardwell has delicious cheeses and a new product, cheese chips, that are addictive! The Monday Greenmarket is definitely worth a visit! Check this URL for what's available today: http://tinyurl.com/8a6cbej
Saturday, November 26, 2011 Some Stands Are Gone For the Season, Some Just For This Saturday, But Many Are Here.
Grazin'Acres and Oak Grove have beef cuts and Oak Grove and Flying Pig have pork. Flying Pig has chickens (and Grazin' may have them, too). PE&DD is here with cooked lobsters, raw shellfish, and fish, as well as crab cakes, lobster salad, and other prepared seafood.
S&SO and Beth's Farm Kitchen have great gift possibilities, including a basket of S&SO prepared foods and Beth's jams, chutneys, and cookbooks. Stokes has several kinds of their classic herb wreath.
Paffenroth is here with several kinds of onion family vegetables, including leeks, cippolini, and shallots, many potato varieties, and other tasty produce. Gorzynski has a small but select offering of root vegetables as well as eggs. Stokes has cut herbs, greens, broccoli, cauliflower, lemon grass, and other excellent produce. Shushan has hydroponic greens and tomatoes.
Locust Grove has quinces, apples, and pears, as well as cider, and Caradonna has apples, pears, cider, and grapes. Hoeffner is here with their last tomatoes, as well as greens, squashes, and other vegetables. Gorzynski and Paffenroth have exquisite tiny purple topped turnips -- buy them now to cook with your Christmas bird, as Gorzynski will only be here for one more market. Check this URL for today's produce: http://tinyurl.com/7jc3ntj
Wednesday, November 24, 2011 Violet Hill, Quattro's, Di Paolo, Garden of Spices Poultry Farm -- All here with poultry orders!
Many stands are not in their usual Wednesday places and some stands for other market days are here today, so you need to do some hunting for your faves. Flying Pig, Tamarack, Quattro's, Di Paolo, Violet Hill, and others are here with poultry orders and extra turkey, duck, and other options. I picked up a delicious looking pheasant from Quattro's, along with pheasant sausage for stuffing. I got big bunches of rosemary and other herbs from Stokes, where there are also good looking small potatoes, broccoli, and other great produce.
There are plenty of squashes, pumpkins, colorful cauliflowers, and spinach around the market as well as apples, pears, ciders, and pastries. Unfortunately, I made a doctor appointment for 11 A.M., so I don't have time to give you exact locations, but take it from me, you'll be glad you went to Union Square! Cato Corners and Bobolink Cheese are there as well as Cayuga, Hot Bread Kitchen, and other faves. Three Corner Field Farm has lamb items and yogurt.
Check here for what's available and who brought it: http://tinyurl.com/7a7trfy
Okay, gotta go! Good luck and happy Thanksgiving!!!
Monday, November 21, 2011 Maxwell's Last Day! Central Valley's Soup! Consider Bardwell's Cheese Crisps!
Maxwell's farm stand has a wide variety of good looking produce, including baby fennel, greens, herbs, leeks, potatoes, cabbages, brussels sprouts, and beautiful lettuces. Race has big containers of small sweet potatoes for $1.95, brussels sprouts both loose and on branches, cabbages, cauliflowers, and other vegetables. Truncillo, Race, and others have apples and pears.
PE&DD have great looking bay scallops, other shellfish and fish, and cooked lobsters. Madura has potted fresh herbs, several kinds of cauliflower and cabbage, and their excellent selection of mushrooms. Healthway has a wide variety of interesting potatoes. Consider Bardwell has luscious cheeses and a new product made from their cheeses, cheese crisps. Hudson Valley Duck Farm has ducks and duck products including duck rillettes, smoked duck breast, and other duck charcuterie. Raghoo has ducks, chickens, and other poultry as well as rabbits and eggs. Roaming Acres has bison cuts, Berkshire pork cuts, and ostrich meat.
Central Valley Farm has eggs, soups, and cheeses. Andrew's Honey is here today and will be here on Wednesday. Cayuga will have their excellent breads on Wednesday, but has a large assortment of beans and flours today. Lani has salad greens, braising greens, beautiful cauliflowers, and other great produce. Norwich Meadows Farm has tomatoes, greens, salad greens, interesting root vegetables, peppers, tomatillos, radishes, turnips, and a huge offering of other produce. Check this URL for what's available today: http://tinyurl.com/7rmn7bv
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Cranberries! Cardoons! Grapes! Hot Peppers! Burdock! Salsify! It's a great day for the Greenmarket, but you need to search a bit for most of your favorite stands, since the Christmas market has pushed things uptown somewhat. Buzzard Crest is up towards 16th Street on the West side of the market and Cherry Lane is in their usual Wednesday spot in the middle of 17th Street. Flying Pig is at the very end of the West side of the market.
I bought beautiful purple cauliflower and squash from Stokes, as well as their excellent mixed herb bunches. I have Quattro's chicken parts for my stock and Violet Hill's bacon for the Quattro's pheasant I'll be braising on Thanksgiving. Cherry Lane has delicious sweet potatoes and broccoli and I bought garlic butter and egg nog from Ronnybrook. Seatuck has great looking scallops and other shellfish and fish (and probably won't be here Wednesday, unlike most of the Saturday stands.
Eckerton has beautiful little French radishes and cardoons as well as their extensive selection of peppers, and Oak Grove has cheese pumpkins and sugar pumpkins, tomatillos, cabbages, and other produce. They also have beef and pork cuts and other meat items, and pumpkin and apple crumb pies.
D'Attiloco has greens and sprouts, Cato Corners has luscious cheeses, and Three Corner Field Farm is here with lamb cuts. Bulich has many kinds of mushroom. Check this URL for what's available today: http://tinyurl.com/cnfeucmy
Friday, November 18, 2011 Check this URL to see what's available today: http://tinyurl.com/6wenekj
It's Dancing Ewe's last day for great Italian cheeses and gifts! Muddy River may be back in two or three weeks.
Remember that next Friday the Greenmarket will be closed.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 Fresh Cranberries, Grenadan Flavoring Peppers, Candy Cane Beets, Salsify, Burdock, Heirloom Tomatoes
The Christmas market is taking over the South part of the Greenmarket, so you'll have to search for your favorite stands, but they'll still be here. Cato Corner Farm will be in their usual spot on Saturday, but are at the South end today and next Wednesday. Eckerton is here with all kinds of delicious peppers and will probably have their last Wednesday next week. Bodhitree has delicious looking sweet potatoes, greens, salad, herbs, peppers, and other produce. Cherry Lane has greens, salad, candy cane beets, brussels sprouts, and their excellent sweet potatoes.
Many stands have good-looking cauliflower and Stokes has a great variety of cut herbs, including a great mixed bunch for flavoring turkeys and other poultry. Rogowsky has beautiful purple-topped turnips, cabbages, cauliflower, Jerusalem artichokes, and other vegetables. Bulich and Madura have selections of tasty mushrooms. Caradonna has apples, cider, and other produce. Hawthorne Valley has meats, sausages, quark, cheeses, breads, and greens. Roaming Acres has various ostrich meat cuts and other ostrich products. Kernan has cabbages, greens, brussels sprouts, and other vegetables.
Windfall has salad and braising greens, root vegetables, and edible flowers. Di Paola is still taking turkey orders for next week. Blue Moon is here with fresh fish and other seafood. Keith has fresh cut herbs, bags of rocambole garlic for gifts, and other organic produce. Tamarack has vegetables and meats and Beth's Farm Kitchen has all kinds of cranberry items, including jam and chutneys. Check out this URL for pictures of available produce: http://tinyurl.com/722hhtm
Saturday, November 12, 2011 Bottled Peppers, Fresh Grape Juice, Fresh Dried Beans, Venison, Jerusalem Artichokes, Tiny Potatoes, Brussels Sprouts!!
Berried Treasures has tiny potatoes and sunchokes. James Durr has colorful wreaths and Stokes is bringing in their wonderful fresh herb wreaths for the holidays. Buzzard Crest has grapes and grape juices and will be here next week, but further up in the market on the West side, since the Christmas Market is moving into their spot.
Quattro's has venison, rabbits, sausages, cornish game hens, various chickens, ducks, and chicken parts and eggs. Stokes has plenty of pumpkins, herbs, and broccoli, and Van Houten has big delicious looking cauliflowers, squashes, and other produce. Cato Corners has succulent cheeses, including their famous Dairyere, Vivace, and Bridgids, and will be in the market the next two Wednesdays in addition to Saturdays. Keith has herbs, greens, and gift bags of rocambole garlic and D'Attolico has sprouts and greens.
Seatuck has beautiful fresh fish and shellfish, including scallops, clams, and oysters. Miglorelli has Brussels sprouts and green and purple kohlrabi, in addition to a sale on Bosc and Clapp pears. Norwich Farm has heirloom tomatoes, squashes, peppers, greens, and other produce and is taking orders for turkeys for the holidays. Oak Grove and Eckerton have tasty hot and flavoring peppers. Oak Grove has beef and pork products in addition to their produce and Violet Hill has bacon and other pork items in addition to chickens and chicken parts. Catskill Merino has lamb, as does Three Corner Field Farm (which also has yogurts and cheeses). Northshire Farm and Violet Hill are taking turkey orders. Flying Pig has sausages and other pork products, in addition to chickens.
Rose Meadow Farm has beautiful roses and River Garden has dried flower bouquets, wreaths, and other arrangements. Beth's Farm Kitchen has many delicious cranberry items for the holidays, including sauces and chutneys. Several orchards are here with apples and pears and Locust Grove has quinces as well. S&SO, Paffenroth, Hoeffner, Cherry Lane, and others have a wide range of produce.
Friday, November 11, 2011, 2011 Fine Italian-style Cheeses, Duck and Rabbit, Apples and Pears Galore!
I spent this week driving around Vermont and New Hampshire, looking at the devastation created by Irene and seeing the efforts to clean it up. I saw many fields that had been flooded down to the rock, bridges of all sorts wiped out, and clearing out of rivers and streams going forward. We here in the city have no idea how lucky we were.
Here today: Our Daily Bread, Hot Bread Kitchen, Cayuga Samascott's delicious apples and pears Miglorelli, Norwich Meadows, Bodhitree, Two Guys, and others for winter squashes, greens, lettuces, etc. Muddy River for carrots, various onions, brussels sprouts, etc. Madura for many kinds of mushrooms John Fazio for chickens and chicken parts, ducks and duck parts, rabbits and rabbit parts, duck and chicken eggs. Dancing Ewe for succulent Italian cheeses. Ask them about their olive oil CSA. Bobolink cheeses and breads Queens County Farm Museum's greens and other produce. Deep Mountain Maple syrups, candies, and other maple products.
Saturday, November 5, 2011 Too late to post!
Sorry to say I won't be out early enough to tell you much. Yesterday's report should help you see what's in the market, especially if you check out the URL for the pictures. http://tinyurl.com/3sbxbax Make sure you check to see if Buzzard Crest is here today for wonderful grapes and juices, Eckerton for peppers, and Cayuga for breads. Shushan should be back with hydroponic tomatoes, too. Just remember that while the produce pictured will probably be available several of the stands will not, since they're on the Friday schedule.
Friday, November 4, 2011 Dancing Ewe is here for two more weeks, along with Muddy River and Bodhitree. Ask Dancing Ewe about their olive oil CSA! They're here with delicious Italian style cheeses today. Muddy River has carrots, leeks, beets, and greens. Stands with brussels sprouts include: Muddy River, Miglorelli, and Van Houten. Several stands have sweet potatoes, including Bodhitree and Van Houten. Madura has a plentiful supply of various mushrooms and many stands have apples and pears. Tweefontein and Oak Grove have peppers and a few stands have the last gasp of heirloom tomatoes, including Sycamore, Oak Grove, and Berried Treasures.
Dutchmill Flower Farm is gone for the year, but Rose Meadow is here with fresh flowers and River Garden has beautiful dried flower arrangements. Ronnybrook has milks, yogurts, and cheeses and Bobolink has delicious cheeses as well. Beth's Farm Kitchen is here with jams and chutneys and Queens County Farm Museum has a wide variety of produce. Cayuga has breads and beans and Hot Bread Kitchen has breads and various crackers. Check out this URL to see what you can buy today: http://tinyurl.com/3sbxbax
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 I hope you love squash, potatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, hot peppers, apples, and pears, because those are the best looking produce to be found in the market. Paffenroth has black salsify, fresh horseradish, and other interesting novelties, and Stokes and Mountain Sweet Berry have great Italian sauce tomatoes. There are a few stands with heirloom tomatoes as well, but that season is really pretty much over. Sweet potato fans will find excellent ones at many stands in the market and Stokes and others do have lettuces. Bodhitree, Stokes, Paffenroth, and others have braising greens as well. Stokes, Keith, and Two Guys have herbs and Shushan has hydroponic greens and tomatoes. There are plenty of sugar and cheese pumpkins at Sycamore, Oak Grove, and other stands. Van Houten, Sycamore, Oak Grove, and others have big beautiful cauliflowers and broccoli. Eckerton and Oak Grove have unique and beautiful hot peppers -- many kinds and strengths.
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Wet? Yes! Here? Yes! Expecting Snow? Yup!
First thing I bought today was a chicken from Quattro's. I also bought bags of legs and wings from Violet Hill. All of the poultry at both stands looks great today. Violet Hill also has gorgeous wild mushrooms. Stokes has greens, lemon grass and other herbs, big cauliflowers, and masses of pumpkins. Sycamore also has alot of pumpkins in addition to broccoli, tomatoes, and other produce.
Cato Corner is here with delicious cheeses and Cayuga and Our Daily Bread have wonderful breads to go with them. Beth's Farm Kitchen has all sorts of tasty jams and Ronnybrook has milks, cheeses, butters, and other dairy goodies. Tonjes has buttermilk, cheeses, and yogurts and PE&DD has fish and shellfish. Buzzard Crest is here with a variety of great grapes, grape juices, and wines.
Paffenroth has a huge selection of potatoes, carrots, greens, onion varieties, and unusual produce as do Lani and Norwich Meadows. Miglorelli and S&SO are also here with produce and other items. Locust Grove has apples, pears, and cider and Cherry Lane and Sycamore have still got heirloom tomatoes!
Keith, Gorzynski, and Eckerton are here with organic produce. Milk Thistle has milk and D'Attolico has sprouts and other produce (Tell Vinnie happy birthday!). Binder has herb plants and Oak Grove has pies, heirloom tomatoes, popping corn, pork products, pumpkins, and other produce.
Friday, October 28, 2011 A Sunny Patch of Winter
Back from a week in England to find it just as cold here as it was around Cambridge! Just about every Friday stand is still here, although the offerings are slimmer. Still, you can get beautiful cheese from Dancing Ewe, Patches of Stars and Bobolink, and great bread from Cayuga, Hot Bread Kitchen, and Our Daily Bread. John Fazio is here with chicken, rabbit, and other good things, and Beth's Farm Kitchen is offering pretty Halloween gifts of delicious jams and chutneys. Salento Farm has garlic and garlic powder and Roaming Acres has ostrich meat and fresh eggs. Pura Vida has several kinds of very fresh fish. Tree-licious has quinces. Berried Treasures has STRAWBERRIES!!
Two Guys has lettuces and Bodhitree has great greens, unusual potatoes, peppers, and herbs, as well as beautiful beans and peppers. Miglorelli has plenty of produce, including a wide variety of gourds and squashes. Queens County Farm Museum has mixed greens and other produce. Sycamore and Oak Grove have gorgeous cheese and sugar pumpkins. They and Norwich have heirloom tomatoes (!) and several stands have broccoli. Muddy River and Sycamore have brussels sprouts.
Dutchmill has beautiful zinnias and other flowers and will probably be gone after this coming week for the year.
Check out this URL for pictures of today's Greenmarket stands: http://tinyurl.com/44jb4z3
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Pretty much everyone who was here last Wednesday is here today, mostly with the same produce. Eckerton has gorgeous CARDOONS and Lynhaven, in addition to their delicious cheeses, has a variety of chicken eggs as well as duck eggs. Most farmers I spoke to said they would be here at least until Thanksgiving. I was relieved to find that out, since I'll be away until October 25 and didn't want to miss saying goodbye before the Recessional gets under way. Dutchmill isn't here today, but may be here on Friday. Sycamore still has good looking heirloom tomatoes and corn and Eckerton has an excellent selection of hot peppers.
It's definitely pear and apple season and time to start drinking cider, if you haven't already! Cherry Lane and Stokes have great sauce tomatoes.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 L'Shana Tovah, Y'All! Taking today off, but did want to post that I got a notice that Violet Hill has fresh pork today!
Also -- as I've been saying all week, buy your tomatoes (and basil) if you're planning to freeze for the winter. Things are winding down.
Friday, October 7, 2011 Sugar Pumpkins! Winter Squashes! Gourds! Grapes!
It's definitely apple and pear season, with Samascott, Locust Grove, and others bringing in many tasty varieties. There is also fresh apple cider and Red Jacket has all sorts of fruit flavored ciders and juices. Beth's Farm Kitchen has luscious jams and jellies, and Deep Mountain has maple products, including maple marshmellows. Madura has great looking produce and many interesting mushroom varieties.
Muddy River has fennel, cipollini, and other vegetables and Norwich has a wide choice of beans, greens, squashes, eggplants, and tomatoes. Sycamore has corn, tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, and cauliflower. Cayuga is here with many dried beans, delicious whole wheat and ale breads, and Berried Treasures has beans, red and yellow raspberries, cherry tomatoes, and various tiny potatoes. Pura Vida has wonderful fresh fish. John Fazio has poultry and rabbit and Dancing Ewe is here with their fabulous cheeses (ask them about their CSA and gift boxes).
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Sauce Tomatoes! Hot peppers! Celeriac!
Stokes, Berried Treasures, Bodhitree, Cherry Lane, Mountain Sweet Berry, and Sycamore all have delicious looking tomatoes for sauce. The heirlooms still look good, but if you're freezing heirloom tomatoes for the winter, this is the week to do it. Chill is in the air and supplies are definitely starting to shrink. Bodhitree and Berried Treasures have good looking beans and several stands have many types of eggplants, but those are on the downslide as well. There is a freeze in our near future and farmers are struggling to bring in good produce. Nevia of Bodhitree thinks she'll only be coming in for two more weeks, for instance.
Stokes has many pumpkins, lots of big bunches of herbs, and lemongrass. S&SO still has a good deal of produce, as do Paffenroth and Miglorelli, but you can see things starting to lessen in amounts and types of vegetable.
Saturday, October 1, 2011 San Marzano, Federale, Purple Cherokee, all heirloom tomatoes!
Seize the day! Great tomatoes are to be had all over the market, but a frost could come at any time. Cherry Lane, Mountain Sweet Berry, Stokes, Norwich, Oak Grove, Sycamore, and others have excellent tomatoes, but the weather is changing. If you freeze tomatoes or make sauce for the freezer, now's the time.
Buzzard Crest is here with luscious grapes and grape juices. Some varieties will only be here for another week! Try the Jupiters! Quattro's has all kinds of poultry, eggs, and sausages. Violet Hill has Belle Rouge chickens and parts. Ronnybrook DOESN'T HAVE BUTTER OR CREME FRAICHE today.
Eckerton and Oak Grove have wonderful selections of hot peppers and Sycamore has corn, sweet peppers, and other produce. Stokes, Paffenroth, Ryder, Gorzynski, and others have cut herbs and Oak Grove has beautiful herb plants. Stokes, Sycamore, and others have sugar pumpkins and Paffenroth, Oak Grove, Stokes, and others have winter squashes. Norwich has all of those AND summer squash, beans, eggplants, and other goodies.
All of the usual suspects are here, except for Silver Heights (gone until next year). Violet Hill has gorgeous wild mushrooms and Bulich has beautiful cultivated ones. Cato is here with tasty cheeses and Three Corner Field Farm has cheeses, yogurts, and lamb cuts. Beth's Farm Kitchen has their excellent preserves and chutneys. Cayuga has lovely ale bread, whole wheat loaves, and beans. Go to this URL to see who's here and what they've brought:http://tinyurl.com/3wokmr7
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 Winter Squash! Hot Peppers! Heirloom Tomatoes! Interesting Mushrooms!!
Dutchmill and River Garden are here with beautiful flowers.
Honey Hollow, Madura, and Bulich have many kinds of mushroom. Cayuga, Hot Bread Kitchen, and Our Daily Bread have a wide variety of breads. Sycamore, Bodhitree, Cherry Lane, Stokes,Norwich, and others have heirloom tomatoes. Two Guys and Keith have several kinds of lettuce and Keith, Paffenroth, and Miglorelli have delicious greens. Oak Grove and Eckerton have fantastic hot peppers of all sorts and Stokes and Paffenroth have bunches of herbs. Among the people who have an assortment of potatoes are Mountain Sweet Berry, Paffenroth, Bodhitree, and Madura. Andrew is here with unique honeys and Locust Grove, Caradonna, Breezy Hill, and others have crisp new apples.Click on this url to see pictures of who's here today and what they've brought: http://tinyurl.com/3sk3q4j
Saturday, September 24, 2011 Violet Hill has several kinds of wild mushroom this week. Bulich also has a large selection of mushrooms. Stokes, Paffenroth, and others have winter squashes. Lani, Norwich, and others have a great selection of beans. Stokes,Sycamore, Oak Grove, Cherry Lane, and others have heirloom and field tomatoes and eggplants. Eckerton and Oak Grove have great selections of hot and seasoning peppers. Eckerton has chestnuts. Check Keith for fresh black walnuts (I saw them Wednesday but breezed by too fast to notice if they have them today.).
This is the last day for Silver Heights and their beautiful vegetable and herb plants. They'll be back next year! Binder is here with lush herb and flowering plants.
Several stands have peaches and plums. Sycamore has corn (no second load after that big rain) as does Oak Grove. Paffenroth has a wide selection of produce including gorgeous baby beets. Northshire Farm has puntarella, CARDOONS, and other unique greens in addition to eggs.
See the following for pictures of the produce and stands that are here today: http://tinyurl.com/42u6fbn
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Last gasp of the stone fruit this week? Check out this url to see who's here and what they've brought:
http://tinyurl.com/4332rh3
Fantasy Fruit -- blueberries, apples, grapes Rogowski -- gourds, onions, potatoes, greens. Kernan -- okra, eggplants, peaches, peppers, mini pumpkins. Honey Hollow -- mushrooms, elderberries. S&SO -- salad greens, peppers, tomatoes, herbs, mini onions. Eckerton -- Trinidad flavoring peppers, other hot peppers, basil varieties, tomatoes. Tamarack -- pork products, greens. Keith -- tomatoes, herbs, rocambole garlic, pumpkins, greens, peppers, fresh walnuts! Beth's Farm Kitchen -- jams, jellies, chutneys, pickled vegetables. Blue Moon -- fish and shellfish.
Andrew's Honey. Mountain Sweet Berry -- mini potatoes, French baby leeks, greens. Sycamore -- corn, tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes. Oak Grove -- herb plants, hot peppers, heirloom and other tomatoes, melons, corn, peaches. Paffenroth -- wide variety of produce, including burdock, carrots corn, leeks, onions, shallots, unique greens. Cherry Lane -- okra, heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, sauce tomatoes. Bodhitree -- beans, squashes, eggplants, heirloom tomatoes, salad greens, herbs. Stokes -- lemon grass, various mints, many basil varieties, heirloom tomatoes, potatoes, greens. Three Corner Field Farm -- yogurt, lamb cuts, cheeses.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 Eckerton and Oak Grove Have Great Hot Peppers!!
Catch Buzzard Crest's delicious grapes and grape juice while you can! They are aiming for Thanksgiving, but the freaky weather may change that. I've already got a couple of pints in the freezer. Now is also a good time to buy San Marzano tomatoes from Northshire, Cherry Lane, and others for your winter supply of sauce.
There are a lot of winter squashes in the market already, at Norwich Meadows, Paffenroth, Oak Grove, and other stands. I've even seen pumpkins, although it looks like S&SO will not have their usual massive display this year. Paffenroth, Sycamore, and others have corn and Sycamore will be getting their second load, picked today, at around 11AM. Mountain Sweet Berry had Tri-Star strawberries when I went by at 8:30, but it looked as if they were going fast! They also have excellent sauce tomatoes.
Stokes Farm's heirloom tomatoes looked great this morning, as did Keith's, Oak Grove's, and several others. Cherry Lane has beautiful little fairytale eggplants and basil. Northshire has cardoons, puntarella, and other unique vegetables as well as eggs. Quattro's and Violet Hill are here with poultry and eggs and Flying Pig has tasty sausages and pork cuts. Ronnybrook is having a special on ice cream and Milk Thistle is here with milk. Tonjes has buttermilk, cheeses, and yogurt.
Click on this URL to see who's here and what they've brought in: http://tinyurl.com/3ccrafc
Friday, September 16, 2011 Muddy River is back!! New Bakery -- Nordic rye bread!!
I was so happy to see Muddy River in the market today. They lost 75% of their crop between Irene and the other hurricane, but have leeks, beets, onions,and other good things. They say they will be coming in for a while, but not for the winter. Click on this url to see what's here today and some pictures of what Irene did to Muddy River Farm: http://tinyurl.com/3vcy5cr
I'm eating some excellent cranberry rye bread from a new bakery in the market. They have several small loaves and other choices. The stand is called Nordic Breads. I'm in real trouble now -- love their cranberry bread, Cayuga's ale bread, Our Daily Bread's sourdough, and Hot Bread Kitchen's challah! Forget the low carb diet, especially on Fridays!
If you're planning to freeze tomatoes and herbs for the winter, this seems to be the weekend to do it. Some farmers are expecting frost tonight. Meanwhile, there are plenty of good looking tomatoes at Norwich, Bodhitree, Miglorelli, and other stands. Samascott has good looking Italian plums and several stands including Bodhitree, Berried Treasures, and Norwich, have excellent beans. Berried Treasures has TriStars and elderberries and Cheerful Cherry has great tomatoes and grapes.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 EEk! Winter Squashes! Sweet Potatoes!! Grapes!! You know what's coming!
Fantasy Fruit has grapes along with their blueberries and apples. Tweefontein has several kinds of peppers along with herb drinks and other items. The hot peppers are IN in the market, with Eckerton and Oak Grove having the widest choice. A few stands, including Bodhitree and Paffenroth, have many kinds of winter squash in addition to their summer squash, signaling the arrival of Autumn. And the supply of heirloom tomatoes, while still fairly strong, shows signs of fading. There are still plenty of peaches, but that won't last much longer either. Locust Grove and Cherry Lane have raspberries -- better get those while you still can. Locust and others have grapes.
Bodhitree and Berried Treasures have squashes, beans, heirloom tomatoes, and other produce. Look for Romano beans among others. BerriedT also has Tri-Star strawberries and Mountain Sweet Berry has Italian sauce tomatoes and Tri-Stars as well. The shocker this morning for me was the huge range of winter squashes at Paffenroth's stand and the diminished supply there of baby beets! Miglorelli has a great deal of produce as does S&SO, but you know that October is about to come and crash the summer season. It's almost last gasp time!! http://tinyurl.com/3jawyhp
Saturday, September 10, 2011 Seatuck(whole fish, filets, shellfish), Ryder(organic produce),Buzzard Crest(grapes,grape juices)!!!
Many farmers had problems with tomatoes due to Irene and to the extensive rainstorms, but careful searching will produce rewards. Sycamore will be bringing in second delivery corn at around 11AM(picked today). Fantasy Fruit says that they'll have blueberries for about two more weeks. D'Attolico was hit with flooding and lost their wonderful carrots and tomatoes, but they're here with great onions, garlic, and sprouts. Hoeffner, Lani, S&SO, Paffenroth, Eckerton, Oak Grove, Sycamore, Gorzynski, and many others are here with great selections of produce. Flying Pig has pork products, chickens, and eggs, and Violet Hill has beautiful and unusual mushrooms in addition to their Belle Rouge chickens and chicken parts and many kinds of egg. Northshire has their own special eggs and unique produce.
The survivors of the rain include a wide range of hot and sweet peppers from Eckerton, Norwich, Oak Grove, and others. Stokes has all sorts of cut herbs, heirloom tomatoes, and other produce.
If you have a chance, call the Federal and State Agriculture departments to support relief for our farmers. They stood up for us; we should do the same for them!!! www.agmkt.state.ny.us/contact.html
Monday, September 5, 2011 Just about every stand usually here on Monday is here. Lani, Norwich Meadows, Maxwell, and others are here with a wide variety of produce, including beans of all sorts, melons, heirloom tomatoes, greens, salad vegetables, and herbs. Healthway has many kinds of potatoes and Truncillo has white and yellow peaches. Consider Bardwell cheeses and Hudson Valley Duck are here with delicious appetizers and great main dish items. Red Jacket and Race have fruit and other produce and the Lavender By The Bay stand has dried lavender and gift options. Norwich Meadows has golden and red raspberries, chickens and chicken parts, and various yogurts. Check out album: http://tinyurl.com/3rf9a5e
Saturday, September 3, 2011 Buzzard Crest is Here With Grapes and Grape Juices!! Second Delivery Corn From Sycamore at 11 AM!!!
Paffenroth is here with a wide variety of produce, but did lose a field of carrots and showed me pictures of fields of water. They still have beautiful baby beets, colorful carrots, all sorts of onions and related vegetables, herbs, and unique greens. Sycamore has corn, tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes, peaches, and cucumbers. S&SO has all sorts of salad vegetables and herbs. Keith has heirloom tomatoes, salad greens, herbs, rocambole garlic, and other greens. Stokes has big bunches of cut herbs, heirloom tomatoes, lemongrass, squashes, and eggplants. Buzzard Crest has Niagara, Concord, and Delaware Seeded grapes, Caradice, Jupiter, and Nimrod Seedless grapes, as well as red and white grape juice!
Eckerton has all sorts of peppers and heirloom tomatoes. Oak Grove has herb plants, heirloom tomatoes, peaches, many kinds of hot and sweet peppers, corn, and pork products. PE&DD has cooked lobsters, fish, shellfish, and fish salads. Silver Heights has organic plants and eggs. Windfall Farm has many sizes and kinds of squashes and greens, as well as edible flowers. D'Attolico has sprouts, young onions, and young garlic. Northshire has rocket, puntarella, tomatoes, and eggs. Violet Hill has chickens and chicken parts, and Berkshire pork products, as well as mushrooms, duck eggs, and many varieties of chicken egg.
Check this URL out for a picture notebook of what's here today: (Incidentally, there are a few shots at the end from my visit to Russ and Daughters this morning. Not sure how that happened!)
http://tinyurl.com/3phku3h
Friday, September 2, 2011 Muddy River Is Not Here Today
Muddy River got seriously flooded. I hope that he can recover soon! Many of our farmers were victims of Irene. I wish them all well and speedy recoveries from wind, rain, and flood, and hope to see them back in the market soon. Meanwhile, we need to support the farmers who are here -- they, too, have had some problems resulting from the hurricane. When I think of how they struggled to get here the week of 9/11, and gave us a sense of normalcy, I have only good thoughts for them.
Meanwhile, here's who's here: copy and paste: http://tinyurl.com/3mjcojg
Cheerful Cherry(grapes, heirloom and other tomatoes, white and yellow peaches), Two Guys (lettuces, greens, herbs), John Fazio(chicken, chicken parts, rabbits,ducks), Roaming Acres(Ostrich), Bodhitree(eggplants,beans,peppers,greens,squashes,squash blossoms),Divine Brine(pickled vegetables),Cayuga(Breads,grains,dried beans,flours), Hot Bread Kitchen.
Miglorelli (wide range of produce), Madura(just mushrooms today), Bobolink(bread and cheeses), Pura Vida(fish and seafood), Sycamore(corn,heirloom tomatoes,peaches),Berried Treasures(shelling beans, heirloom tomatoes,red and gold raspberries,squashes,cress), Oak Grove (white and yellow peaches, wide range of hot and sweet peppers and heirloom tomatoes,melons,corn).
Samascott(blueberries,strawberries,Italian plums,other produce), Norwich Meadows (squashes,melons,beans,greens,heirloom tomatoes,raspberries,peppers,okras, tomatillos), Van Houten (tomatoes,melons, Stokes(lemon grass, many basils,other cut herbs,heirloom tomatoes,potatoes,cucumbers).
Wednesday 31, 2011 Black Walnuts(Keith), Jelly Melon Cucumbers(Eckerton) Fresh Edamame(Bodhitree and Paffenroth)
Keith -- Heirloom tomatoes, salad greens, new season onions, cut herbs, black walnuts, rocambole garlic.
Eckerton -- The pepper season is IN, with many varieties! Heirloom tomatoes, tiny cucumbers, herbs.
Cayuga, Hot Bread Kitchen -- Breads, crackers, beans, flours.
Locust Grove -- Peaches, plums, raspberries, grapes, blackberries.
Tamarack and Rogowsky -- A variety of produce. Tamarack also has pork and kielbasa.
Beth's Farm Kitchen -- Ask about elderberry jam!
Garden of Spices Poultry Farm -- Chicken liver pate, whole fresh chicken, whole fresh duck, chicken and duck parts, eggs.
Andrew's Honey -- The new crop from New York City is here, by borough!! When they say local honey, they mean local!!
Mountain Sweet Berry -- Tri-Star strawberries, sucrine lettuce, and other unique greens, Italian sauce tomatoes.
For a look at what's available today: http://tinyurl.com/4xu4g6n
Monday, August 29, 2011 Most Monday Farmers Are Here Norwich Meadows, Lani, Fantasy Fruit, Madura, Maxwell, Consider Bardwell, Race, Red Jacket, Phillips, Central Valley, Dutchmill Flowers, and PE&DD are all here! Copy and paste this URL to see what they've brought!!! http://tinyurl.com/3nj4ya7
Saturday, August 27, 2011 These stands will be here until 11 A.M. today:
Flying Pig (pork products), Violet Hill(chickens), Stokes Farm (cut herbs, tomatoes, greens), Beth's Farm Kitchen (jams, pickled vegetables), Bobolink Dairy (cheeses), Caradonna (fruit and vegetables), Paffenroth(a huge variety of vegetables), Catskill Merino (lamb, lamb sausage, knitting wool, garlic), Keith's Farm(heirloom tomatoes, greens, Rocambole garlic), Van Houten (melons, vegetables), Mountain Sweet Berry(Tri-star strawberries, wild baby arugula, other unique greens), Windfall Farm(greens, squashes--ask about eggs), and more. See this URL for pictures of what's available: http://tinyurl.com/424swxt