Westside Community Market

Black plums from Dia & Khoua Vang Session III Begins The last weekend before school begins and just a few fleeting days of August remain for us to enjoy. While we hope that summer feeling holds, we at market officially enter our fall session this Saturday and the signs are already popping up. Ten Eyck Orchard returned this past weekend with their early apples (pictured). Sadly frosts this April hurt a lot of the early apple crop for our growers, meaning a later start this sea

Fresh okra from Happy Valley Farm Classic Flavors, New Recipes Come mid-August, you just have to throw your hands up and accept that you can't try everything every week when it comes to market options. Yet, we do get the chance to play around with our favorites and put a little adventure into the old staples. With abundant cabbage, like these pictured beauties from J + R Farm, and pecks of peppers, give this simple pickled cabbage and peppers recipe a try. This is great atop

Tasty ground cherries from Emerald Meadows Family Farm Soaking Up That Summer Magic Firstly, we want to thank everyone for coming out to celebrate National Farmers Market Week with us last Saturday. It was simply a perfect market morning for all the great finds, music, free face painting and time spent together. Truly a celebration of what market season is all about. We were happy to welcome back Hope & Hill Flower Co. from Blachardville with their beautiful bouquets (picture

Fresh field tomatoes from Blue Moon Community Farm National Farmers Market Week The first week of August is here and with it, the celebration we look forward to every year, National Farmers Market Week. Throughout our 30+ week season, we feel like we try to celebrate our little market community whether it's rainy, like last Saturday, cold and chilly, like some early and late season markets can be, or the perfect bluebird 75 degree day that blesses us from time to time. Yet, d