Recently we experienced the Tuesday farmer’s market for the first time, rather than the farmer’s market on Saturdays that we are used to, because that’s when we happened to be in town. The market on Tuesday is much smaller, with fewer booths, less crowded, quieter. It’s a different pace and a different feel. (We love them both.) Yet, even with a smaller sampling of farms, there is still so much goodness to be found there! These pictures were taken this week, on June 9th.
I wrote down recently:
May 26: Saw first peaches at farmer’s market! Had to do a double take because I couldn’t believe my eyes. Peaches in May! Grown in a greenhouse, but still incredibly amazing to me to find them so early. They were delicious. Also at market were: strawberries, blackberries, loganberries, tayberries, raspberries, and black cap raspberries. Grateful to have so much fresh fruit so early in the season!
This week we saw, in addition to all I mentioned above: radishes, cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage, zucchini, turnips, chard, beets, garlic, cilantro, kale, onions, dried blueberries, and mixed greens. Those are just some of the delicious things available at the market right now. The vegetable that I was most excited about this week was simply: the cucumber. With the hot weather lately, I’ve been craving cucumbers like crazy. {Last time at the farmer’s market, in mid-April.}
What’s growing in your neck of the woods right now?
Such wonderful colours, how lovely to see all that fruit and veg somewhere other than a supermarket! We are really spoilt now and have a weekly market so I am now able to get veg there. x
Beautiful pictures! It’s all making me want our long anticipated harvest here even more! Things are just getting going here in Nova Scotia. So far just fiddle heads, kale and spinach. Heard today that greenhouse Strawberries are soon. Yikes!! Just a little more patience from me…hard to do. It’s been a long winter into spring. I just bought a sweet potato to add to a recipe the other day for some color, not to be hard on the sweet potato but I hope I don’t see another one for quite sometime.
Have fun filling your bellies with all that goodness.
I’ve wondered about peaches in a high tunnel. I’m in Maine and am not sure how I’d get them pollinated. They’d bloom before the bees are out.
I’m in awe of the fruits you have all at once. Our strawberries are months before our raspberries, and the raspberries are ending as the blackberries are beginning to ripen. I’d be in jam making, pie baking, dessert making overload and loving it!
About the peaches in a high tunnel… I wonder if some mason bees could do it if you hatched them out at the time the peaches are blooming?
The farms around here get all those berries so early because they grow them in greenhouses. But we are starting to get ripe raspberries in our own yard. Do you blackberries get invasive in Maine the way they do here in Oregon?
I hadn’t thought of mason bees! I bet that would work. Great idea. Thank you!
Blackberries spread but don’t take over the way raspberries do here. They also don’t produce as dependably as raspberries. In a good year we can pick 20 gallons a day when we find a good spot but most of the time it takes a couple of hours to find five or six quarts.
We just put our filled, spring mason bee tubes in the garage until fall when we will take out the cocoons and save them through the winter. Next spring I’d like to hatch them out at different times to cover our earliest things in the garden that need pollinating.
Blackberries are considered invasive in Oregon, they take over everywhere!
I enjoyed this so much!
Wow! Everything looks so perfect! Are these all organic growers?
I think all the booths I took pictures at were organic. So many of the booths there are, which we’re really grateful for!
Well, I live in CT and things are just starting here. I just planted beans last week. My kale are about ten inches tall. The peas are just flowering, the zinnias just a few inches tall or just planted. You get the idea. My sun flowers are about fives tall. But in a month the garden will be in full swing and beautiful, that is if all the animals stay out of the garden. Just saw some bear scat in the grass. For the record, we have bear, bobcat, mountain lion, coyote, fisher, and of course deer. pretty good for an East Coast state, huh? :-). All the photos of the produce makes me drool. I just have to be patient. I lived out west in the pre farmer’s market/ local food movement.
Our local farmer’s market is always way ahead of our own garden. Our zucchini plants and cucumbers are still small.
Wow, you’ve got a lot of animals around there! We have a deer that has been visiting our garden and hopefully the elk herd won’t visit like last year. The bear usually doesn’t visit us until our fruit trees are ripe. What is a fisher?
I love all the colors at the markets now. But peaches? Wow, that’s amazing to grow peach trees in a green house.
I just harvested about 30 pounds of yellow squash and zucchini this morning. Man, if I don’t get out there every day, it just takes over! I’ll be making zucchini bread for market Saturday! And we’ve had radishes, kale, lettuce.
I saw flowers on my Blue Lake beans too! Cannot wait for fresh green beans soon.
Also harvested almost a gallon of honey from my hive this week! It’s amazing!
I thought peaches in a greenhouse was pretty amazing too. Who would have thought? 🙂
Wow, I can’t believe you’re already getting 30 pounds of squash! Good thing for zucchini bread.
A gallon of honey… hooray! You must have some happy bees, Kris!