Corn has arrived. Blueberries are here. Cherry tomatoes are coming in. It’s looking like mid-summer. Feel hot? Come to the market and enjoy our air-conditioning. We have a tree-shaded spot at Marine Park, with breezes coming off the harbor. Also: Sam’s American Ices in delicious fruity flavors. In case …
It will be hot this week. Just in time for the heat-wave, here come Uncle Sam’s American Ices (on a cooler-equipped red bike, a sort of reverse-tricycle.) The icy treats come in flavors like watermelon, and refreshing ginger, and taste like summer. Tony Melli says he can’t keep …
It’s summer and the market is humming. We have lots of variety, including hoop-house tomatoes from Pariah Dog Farm and Freshfield Farm’s eagerly anticipated new potatoes, creamy yellow-fleshed Augustas, the season’s first. We’re also launching our new SNAP matching-dollar program. To use your EBT card, please introduce yourself …
Ready for the big weekend? Load up on local. Get a holiday pie from Pies à la Mode. Look for boxes of sweet ripe strawberries. Pick up a creamy, oozy burrata from Fromage à Trois (try a plain burrata with a pop of fresh red currants.) Fill your …
This week, look for Carrie Richter’s new strawberry-rhubarb jam. Carrie grew the rhubarb at Peachtree Circle Farm in Sipewissett. Pariah Dog Farm grew the strawberries, just a few miles away in Teaticket. “Neighbor farmers helping one another,” said Carrie, as if to say, “just as it should be.” …
A local strawberry is a thing of joy. Last Thursday the first fresh-picked berries arrived at the market. They were red, juicy and sweet. They were delicious. Our local strawberry season lasts only a few weeks, so come to the market next week and make …
Strawberries made their first appearance at last Thursday’s market. And disappeared fast. A line quickly formed at the table for Pariah Dog Farm, which grows strawberries in Teaticket. “These are for eating today,” explained Jenny Christian, “and these” – motioning towards the berries waiting in the back of her …
“Will fish be back? “ people were asking all winter. Captain Willy Hatch’s fish gained quite a following last summer. Many said they’d never tasted fish so fresh. So, good news, eager pescavores: locally-caught fish is available again this year from Captn. Hatch’s boat, the Machaca. The Machaca …
Opening Day has snuck up on me this year! I’m thrilled that it is the time of year to shop and mingle with friends and neighbors at the market again. On Thursday, May 26 we are excited to open the season with many new and …
We are so excited to welcome a visit from Ali Berlow, this Thursday, May 26 from noon to 4:30 PM. Ali is the acclaimed author of “The Food Activist Handbook: Big & Small Things You Can Do To Help Provide Fresh Healthy Food For Your …
It’s been a while since we’ve had a rainy market. Not since last year, in fact. When it finally rained last Thursday, it poured. Even so, brave souls arrived just before noon to await the opening bell. One advantage about our new location in wet …
Ready for the big Falmouth Road Race weekend? Fromage à Trois, which sells pasta, was ready even last week. Two chalkboards popped up at its table. “Road Race, Stock Up For Your Guests,” said one. “Get your carbs early!” advised the other, next to a …
This week is Farmer’s Market Week in America. Here in Massachusetts, the week got off to a grand start with the opening of the Boston Public Market, a year-round, covered, regionally-sourced market planted smack in Boston’s downtown. “I encourage everyone to support Massachusetts’ hard-working farmers …
New potatoes are here! Freshfield Farm is bringing the season’s first potatoes from East Falmouth : Irish cobblers (for mashing) Superiors, Yukon and new red potatoes, perfect for salad. Freshfield, which sells potatoes and onions from handsome wooden boxes, often brings an extra surprise: black …
Fromage à Trois is back! Its return last week made a lot of people happy. Fromage à Trois burratas, mozzarella and Armenian string cheese have been missed, not to mention its fresh pastas. Fettuccine, pea-tendril fettuccine, angel hair and pappardelle all sold out fast. The …
It’s berry time. week we had raspberries, black raspberries, red currants, champagne currants, even a first glimpse of blueberries. They make a great fruit salad; dust mixed berries with powdered sugar and dish up with a spoonful of whipped cream, ice cream, Greek yogurt—or even …
This week you’ll find little boxes of sparkling red currants and champagne currants. Local raspberries—we can hardly wait—are just around the corner. Can blueberries be far behind? Also in the fruit department: you’ll see a greater variety of early tomatoes this week. Come and get …
School’s out. The Fourth of July is this weekend. There’ll be ice cream at the Falmouth Museums on the Green, the children’s annual Bike Parade on Main Street, seaside fireworks in the evening—and family gatherings and cookouts all over town. At the market this Thursday, …
Strawberries abound. Peachtree Circle Farm has added strawberry jams and Green Briar Nature Center & Jam Kitchen has sun-cooked strawberries in syrup—sinfully delicious over ice-cream. Early summer vegetables are coming into their own and hard-neck garlic is scaping. It’s officially summer—the June solstice happened Sunday—and Falmouth Fireworks will be selling T-shirts …
Maybe you got a late start planting this season. Maybe your kitchen garden has a spot that needs filling in. Maybe you’re a fan of exotic amethyst and lemon basils. Tina’s Terrific Plants returns to the market this Thursday from noon to 6 pm with …
Strawberries. We adore the idea of strawberries so much many of us eat them all year round. But you’ve never tasted a strawberry—really tasted a strawberry and inhaled all its lovely fragrance—until you’ve eaten a ripe one in its proper season. That means a local …
What gets everyone excited at the start of each season are the “The Firsts.” The first ripe strawberries, the first young peas—telling us, yes, summer’s on the way. Both strawberries and young peas, we’re told, will show up this Thursday, along with early cucumbers and …
Our third market at Bigelow Marine Park, and we hope you are enjoying the change of scenery. We have a new market manager, too: Natasha Miskovsky. Do come and say hello. This week the Vela Foundation joins us at the market to introduce Rooting For …
Welcome to Natasha Miskovsky, the new market manager. Natasha stepped into Kate Mahoney’s shoes last week. The market is run by a volunteer board and the board can’t thank Kate enough for all the work she did to establish this market eight years ago and make …
Th Falmouth Farmers Market opens this Thursday, May 21, 2015 at our new home. Please join us Thursday at our new waterfront location at Bigelow Marine Park. Look for white tents on the part of the park behind the band shell, a grassy area with shade trees, …
Non-stop rain fell on last week’s market, hours and hours of it, soaking shoes and chilling bones, but Carrie Richter from Peachtree Circe Farm was not complaining. “We need the rain,” she said. Dig down a few inches into the soil, and fields are quite …
Asparagus and baby bok choy joined the repertoire of spring greens last week – although “greens” don’t begin to describe the riotous shapes and colors of all the leaf-lettuces on display at the market. You could even buy a little container of green, purple, speckled …
Celebrate with us, rain or shine, we said in our opening announcement last week. And wouldn’t you know, on market day, it rained, it shone, it was hot, then cold — and it was all good. Good to be back. Good to see local Spring …