Westside Community Market

Baby green beans from Yang Family Produce Hooray for Halfway Fifteen weeks down, fifteen to go. That's right, we've made it halfway through our 2022 market season. From a cool start in the spring to over 90° last Saturday, watching the market grow into the mid-summer is a pleasure. Vendors return as more produce comes in until the market and every booth is packed with Wisconsin goodness. These mid-summer markets swap sweet corn for asparagus, sunflowers for daffodils, and orc

Beautiful purple cauliflower from Shoua Vang Pick A Peck of Perfect Markets Mid-summer market season is upon us, giving market goers an overwhelming amount of options as you shop. Field ripened tomatoes call out from one stall, while over at Bonde Bee baskets of pickling cucumbers (pictured) are too good to pass up, especially with this simple refrigerator pickle recipe. While we must wait a bit longer for melon season to kick off, blueberries, raspberries, red & champagne cu

Honey Bee Bakery fruit pies always hit the spot It's the Pits Rolling out of bed early on a Saturday morning may not make the top of anyone's list of favorite things, but when the rewards of a summer trip to market are this tasty, it's well worth it. The first prize for this past Saturday's market came in from Door Country Fruit Market with their excellent sweet cherries (pictured). So scrumptious, it was hard to get any home before gobbling them up. If you managed to get hom

Chamomile flowers from Urban Gourmet Fruits of Summer Days In the first few markets of the summer session, a buzz can be heard growing among the market crowd. It's a spoken anticipation of the things to come over the next few weeks. "When do you think sweet corn will be in?" "Any word yet on those Door County cherries?" That excitement is more than the question posed. It's the thought of tasty meals to come, nights spent grilling corn and gobbling up cobbler to cap off a deli

The first raspberries of the season from Sai's Garden 4th of July Weekend Sometimes it feels like the week just drags on and on, doesn't it? Thankfully you've always got the market to look forward to, and as we approach this holiday weekend, we are counting down the hours until we're out there in the sunshine with all our lovely market community members. For many of you, the holiday weekend plans include a cookout of one type or the other, and the market is the place to start