This Week at the Market
LOCATION INFORMATION
This week the Brighton Farmers’ Market will again be held at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave., between S. Winton Road and S. Clinton Avenue. The Market will remain at the new location for several weeks this summer while the Brighton High School parking lot is renovated. There is plenty of parking in the rear of the property, behind the market; just stay to the right when you enter from Elmwood and circle around behind the market. Please be aware that all traffic is one way; the exit is on the opposite side of the building from the entrance. Many thanks to our friends at Temple B’rith Kodesh for their generosity in sharing their beautiful space with us.
There is plenty of parking in the rear of the property, behind the market; just stay to the right when you enter from Elmwood and circle around behind the market. Please be aware that all traffic is one way; the exit is on the opposite side of the building from the entrance. Many thanks to our friends at Temple B’rith Kodesh for their generosity in sharing their beautiful space with us.
From the Vendors
August’s arrival means there will be more wonderful summer goodness from the farms. Honeyhill Farm will have mixed green, purple and golden snap beans; a rainbow of beets; red, purple, and white new potatoes and some russets; cherry and heirloom slicing tomatoes; super-sweet fresh onions; shallots; and pasture-raised chickens, all certified organic. Fellenz Family Farm will have several varieties of tomatoes, squash, peppers, eggplant, salad green and cooking greens, also certified organic. Fisher Hill Farm is bringing zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, lettuce, radish, yellow beans, potatoes, carrots, sweet onions, garlic, garlic scapes, and fresh chicken.
Chicory Blue Gardens will have colorful bouquets, which will include amaranth and echinops, a beautiful blue thistle-like flower. K&S Bischoping is bringing Jersey Dawn peaches, apricots, blueberries, and the first apples of the season — Yellow Transparent, Red Astrachan, and Pristine. Lagoner Farms will have blueberries, early Red Haven freestone peaches, plums, apricots, raspberries, sour cherries, the last of the sweet cherries, green beans, cabbage (savoy, red, and green), beets, carrots, cucumber, zucchini, peppers, and eggplant. Nordic Farm Jams will have peach jam and peach jam bars, made with K&S Bischoping peaches. Organic Matters Farm is bringing fresh eggs, beans (green, wax, and dragon tongue), freshly-dug garlic, lettuces, cucumbers (including seedless), summer squash, and kale.
Wohlschlegel’s Naples Maple Farm will offer free samples of many of their maple products. Small World Food will have black bean and raisin bread, sweet white miso, and pints of ice cream — cherry, coffee chocolate, and chai tea. EatMe Ice Cream is featuring their New Neapolitan ice cream sandwich — layers of roasted banana, espresso, and rum raisin ice cream; they will also have cassis cream cheese swirl ice cream sandwich. Bolton Farms will have lots of leafy greens, including bibb lettuce, spring mix, bouquets, basil, bok choi, tatsoi, chard, pea shoots, and kale. Shannon Brook Farm is bringing certified organic broilers and Cornish game hens, chicken feet, chicken livers and hearts, pasture-raised organically-fed pork, and certified organic duck and chicken eggs.
Happy Hooves Organic Farm will have certified organic 100% grass fed and finished beef, organically raised on pasture pork, organic duck and chicken, Cornish game hens, heritage breed chickens in assorted cuts, and free-ranging chicken and duck eggs. JonJohns Bakery will have coconut almond joy balls and dream pie. Tocoti Chocolate returns to the market with micro-batch bean-to-bar chocolate bars. Tripleberry Farm is bringing pesticide-free blueberries (last week to get flats) and berry jams, including tripleberry, raspberry, and blueberry peach, all made fresh Friday. Seaway Trail Honey is bringing all the seasonal honey, including raw spring, early summer, and summer honey.
Also at the Market
ColorBrightonGreen.org will accept hard-to-recycle items. Brighton Food Cupboard will accept food donations; summer supplies get very low. A list of their needs is here.
The Brighton Farmers’ Market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.
See you Sunday!
