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 timing couldn’t be better. Tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are now in good supply. Basil and […]
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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 a scoop of Long Lane super-fresh goat’s cheese (mild as milk, cool on the tongue, […]
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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 ’em! Now is also the time to pick up bunches of lavender. Your friendly lavender […]
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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, just in time for your celebrations, you’ll see local hoop-house tomatoes, so welcome until field […]
Read moreStrawberries 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 and hats at the market to raise funds for the July 4 firework display. In […]
Read moreMaybe 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 her well-chosen, locally-grown starter plants and herbs. She’ll have pepper plants, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins-and all […]
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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 strawberry, because fully-ripened strawberries, juicy and red all the way through, are too fragile to […]
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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 zucchini. Peachtree Circle Farm will have its big beautiful peony flowers. Flowers alone are worth […]
Read moreOur 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 Health, its new nutrition education program. Using greens plucked from the market, the Vela team […]
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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 it so successful at Peg Noonan Park. Now, as we pitch tents at the Bigelow […]
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