Brighton Food Cupboard Day
Brighton Food Cupboard Day
Each week at the Brighton Farmers’ Market we celebrate the abundance of wonderful local food available to us, thanks to our hard-working community of farmers and vendors. The market’s mission is to help build a strong local food system. In a healthy food system, everyone has enough food. Unfortunately, according to data from a USDA report, food insecurity in New York State has increased 40% over the last decade. The Brighton Food Cupboard is committed to reducing hunger and food insecurity in our community, and this week we celebrate and support their efforts. Suggestions on how you can help and a list of needed items can be found here. The Food Cupboard will accept donations of these items, fresh market produce, and money at the market this week, Sunday, October 13. Thanks to the Brighton Food Cupboard for the wonderful work it is doing to help those in our community who need extra support.
From the Vendors
This week Lakestone Family Farm will have certified organic Hakurei turnips, rainbow chard, collard greens, mixed color mustard greens, mini jewels lettuce, pac choi, garlic, potatoes, green bell peppers, red sweet Carmen peppers, hot peppers, and whole pasture-raised chickens. Clearview Farm will have certified organic sugar snap and snow peas, Roma Italian beans, broccoli, broccoli raab, arugula, kale (Portuguese, Red Russian, and winterbor), leeks, eshallions, shallots, garlic, hot and sweet peppers, dill, Italian oregano, sweet marjoram, eggs, dry black beans, summer and winter squash, golden honeydew, and watermelons. Shannon Brook Farm is bringing organic pekin duck and Cornish game hens.
Lighthouse Gardens will have certified organic rainbow colored cherry tomatoes; purple sweet peppers; purple tomatillos; rainbow Swiss chard; winterbor, dinosaur, and rainbow lacinato kale; green, yellow, and purple beans; eggplant; beets; snow peas; garlic; leeks; lettuce; D’Avignon, Easter Egg and White Icicle radishes; zinnia bouquets; sunflowers; wheatgrass; pea shoots; herb, vegetable, fruit, and ornamental transplants; and hardy chrysanthemums. Organic Matters is bringing certified organic red and green romaine and loose leaf lettuces, green beans, honey nut squash, garlic, peppers, radishes, and eggs. Lagoner Farms will have lots of apples, including Cortland, Jonagold, Honeycrisp, Empire, Northern Spy, and 20 Ounce; fall raspberries; Asian and Bosc pears; broccoli; cauliflower; peppers; and tomatoes.
John of Bolton Farms reports that his crops are growing well, thanks to all the sunshine we’ve had. John will have Boston Bibb lettuce, spring mix, lettuce bouquets, Swiss chard, Red Russian kale, arugula, bok choi, tatsoi, pea shoots, micro greens, tomatoes, basil, parsley, white and purple cauliflower, eggplant, and squashes — butternut, acorn, and delicata. K&S Bischoping will have Bosc pears and quince, plus lots of apples — Jonagold, Red Delicious, Northern Spy, Honey Crisp, Crispin, Empire, Fuji, Macoun, Cortland, and several heirloom varieties.
Happy Hooves Organic Farm is bringing certified organic 100% grass-fed and finished beef; roasting ducks and chicken; and beef, pork and poultry organ meats; Della will also have pasture-raised pork and is taking orders for farm-raised venison. Della says, “And now a message from your farmer, ‘Eat more venison.'” Bloomfield Honey will have a large variety of lovely beeswax candles — floating candles, tapers, pillars, and seasonal shapes — all renewable, long-burning, and soot-free. Allens Hill Farm will have New England Sugar Pie pumpkins, whole rabbits, and apple cider molasses granola.
Small World Food is bringing roasted onion and fennel bread, fermented ketchup, miso, and pints of ice cream — blackberry, apple cinnamon, lemon cantaloupe, and pumpkin. Tocoti Chocolate will have micro-batch chocolate bars, sipping chocolate, and roasted cocoa beans. Biscotti for Everybotti is bringing gluten-free cinnamon raisin and gluten-free espresso chocolate chip biscotti, plus a new version of seasonal pumpkin spice, made with Organic Matters produce, and apple cinnamon biscotti, made with K&S Bischoping apples. JonJohn’s Bakery will have apple cobbler and pumpkin mess cake. Nordic Farm Jams is bringing plum jam and plum jam bars for the jam of the week.
EatMe Ice Cream will have pumpkin goat cheese ice cream on a ginger molasses cookie, pumpkin coconut milk vegan ice cream on a molasses cookie, and cake slices and pints of ice cream. Wohlschlegel’s Naples Maple Farm will have maple cotton fluff along with the farm’s many other maple products. Ann’s Purple Produce is bringing the last of the zucchini, baby summer squash, and eggplant, along with watermelon radishes, colorful peppers, purple basil, golden Asian cucumbers, escarole, purple tomatillos, ground cherries, baby golden beets, purple potatoes and fingerling potatoes, delicata squash, lots of gorgeous dahlias and zinnias, sunflower heads for the birds, giant maroon amaranth and bittersweet for fall decorating, and some showy perennials and houseplants.
Also at the Market
Jeff Slutsky and Friends will perform in the music tent. ColorBrightonGreen.org needs volunteers to be able to continue the recycling program at the market; please contact [email protected] if you are interested or would like information. For information on the changes to the recycling program, see http://www.colorbrightongreen.org/site/index.php?page=brighton-farmer-market.
Winter Market
The Brighton Winter Market opens November 3 and will be held every Sunday afternoon from 1 to 4 throughout the winter. It will be held at 220 Idlewood Road, in the Brookside Center gymnasium. There is an additional entrance to the building off of S. Winton Rd., between Westfall Road and 590.
The summer Brighton Farmers’ Market is held Sundays through October 27 from 9 am to 1 pm in the Brighton High School parking lot, 1150 Winton Road S. More information can be found at www.brightonfarmersmarket.org, You can like the market’s Facebook page or follow us on Twitter.
The Brighton Farmers’ Market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.
See you Sunday!
