I’m lucky enough to be in very close proximity to both a farm market and a farmers’ market.
In the summer, my local farm market is open 7 days a week, and I hit it often on the way home from work to see what new local food is in season.
Ditto with the Friday afternoon Farmers’ Market set up a few short paces from my home in the Village. It’s a great start to the weekend. I park my car and grab my marketing bag and my cash, and head down the street to see what’s new since last Friday.
I especially love visiting both places in August. For years now, I have secretly thought of August as “the month of good eatin’“. Fresh sweet corn, field tomatoes, and peaches. All ripe and ready in August. A perfect trifecta for a summer meal, the best of the bounty of the summer season, starts arriving in August ’round here.
Of course I also love everything else grown around here – the asparagus, the berries, the peas, the beans, radishes, lettuces, cucumbers, plums, pears and squashes…oh those Kabocha squashes!!!!
But there’s something about August, when the corn, tomatoes and peaches are all available together, that is very special to me.
What do you look most forward to, at the farm market?
Rock on,
The WB
Can you guess my theme for this year’s A-Z Challenge? All of my A-Z posts this month will be tied into my theme, which is represented by the title of a song that was popular when I was a child. Can you figure it out as the days (and posts) go by? Leave your guesses (one per day only, please) in the comments. At the end of the challenge, I will reveal the theme. Have fun!
I love our farmer’s market even though it is pretty small. I look forward to fresh tomatoes since the deer ate all of ours last summer. But also the squash, for which I have found many uses. Still working on that song.
Still many more letter posts to go, for theme/song ideas! No one has hit on the song I’m thinking of yet although there have been good guesses!
August is, indeed, a great month for buying at the farmers markets. I don’t can or make jams anymore but I love hearing the stories of younger people in my family doing it. For a long time it seemed like it was a lost art. I’m going to the grocery store today and you’ve made me extra hungry with this post.
I’m glad the old “arts” of canning and preserving are making a comeback with the hipsters of today! I plan to do some of it this summer.
Ugh! Every time I come up with a potential theme, I realize something doesn’t fit. My current (revised) guess is: some of your favorite things.
Hi Deb,
I love most fresh produce that I can get from farm stands and the weekly farmer’s markets. I’m a huge fan of berry season so am looking forward to June and July. And in addition to great produce, there are the fresh flowers (look at those ‘f’s!) and homemade sausage rolls. I’m typing this as fat fluffy flakes fall 🙂 from the sky. Farm stands and farmer’s markets feel like a figment of my imagination.
F is for (The) Faraway Nearby
F-f-f-f-far out! 😂😜
I love farmer markets but sadly there isn’t one convenient to where I live. Like you, I love August/September for its fresh fruit and vegetables. mmmmm – peaches and the fresh crop of HoneyCrisp Apples! The best 🙂
I’m a Mutsu gal myself 😁
I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mutsu. Now I will have to add it to my list 🙂
Also known as Crispin Apple 🍏
I send a big check to my CSA in March so I can pick up a weekly box of vegetables in the summer and fall, and then I also grow a small garden myself. So even though I work at a farmer’s market, I don’t buy much there in the summer. Just my milk, which I get year-round. I like the idea of being able to shop and choose daily from a farm stand. On the other hand, I’ve been forced to eat new vegetables that I never would have chosen, because I get them in my weekly CSA basket.
I’ve considered a CSA box from time to time. I think I need to split one with someone though. From what I’ve seen is offered around here, I’d have a hard time eating everything before it goes bad. I love the idea though, for 2 or more person households.