New Location

This week’s location:  Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave.

The Market is Moving

This Sunday, June 30, the Brighton Farmers’ Market moves to Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave., between S. Winton Rd. and S. Clinton Ave.  The Market will remain at the new location for several weeks this summer while the Brighton High School parking lot is renovated.  We’ll have updated information at the market’s website, www.brightonfarmersmarket.org, throughout the season.  We’re grateful to our friends at Temple B’rith Kodesh for their generosity in sharing their beautiful space with us; we’ll be in the rear parking lot, where there is plenty of parking.

Happy 4th

Celebrate your independence from lousy food at the Brighton Farmers’ Market this week, where farmers will have some delicious newly-harvested treats for the best picnics.  We welcome Karen and Stan Bischoping back to the market; they’ll have raspberries and the first red and white currants.  Shady Lane Farm is bringing sugar snap peas, buttercrunch and redleaf lettuce, beets, spring onions, garlic scapes, fresh-cut herbs (including cilantro and dill), and summer bouquets.  Andy’s Specialty Garlic & Produce will have parsley, three different varieties of lettuce, green kale, rainbow chard, salad mix, beets, cucumbers, and arugula.

Growing Family Farm is bringing enormous Hillbilly Potato Leaf heirloom tomatoes plus other heirloom varieties, cucumbers, broccoli, dried shiitakes, and free-range eggs.  Lakestone Family Farm will have certified organic rainbow chard, kale, collard greens, broccoli raab, Hakurei turnips, snow and snap peas, mini jewels lettuce, scapes, pac choi, eggs, and fresh chicken; Denis is offering a special on chickens over five pounds.  Lagoner Farms will have strawberries, sweet cherries, raspberries, peas, broccoli, lettuce, kale, squash, and beets.

Honeyhill Farm is bringing certified organic crisp, sweet carrots; bunches of mixed red, white, and golden beets, including some baby beets for those who prefer the tasty greens; and pasture-raised chicken. R&M Bischoping will have sugar snap and shelling peas, red Russian and dinosaur kale, black currants, beets, dried beans, and the last strawberries of the season, all no-spray. Fisher Hill Farm is bringing rhubarb, sugar snap and shelling peas, green beans, lettuce, radishes, green garlic, scapes, fresh chicken (whole and half), and what may be the last of the strawberries; Phil reports that heavy rains at his farm shortened the berry season.

Bolton Farms will have heirloom tomatoes, lettuces, arugula, watercress, parsley, basil, bok choi, tatsoi, Swiss chard, and kale.  Lighthouse Gardens is bringing certified organic cherry tomatoes and garlic scapes.  Clearview Farm will have eggs, dry beans, mint, dill, and other herbs.  Shannon Brook Farm will have organically-fed pork shoulder roasts, perfect for 4th of July pulled pork sandwiches, plus other pork cuts, and certified organic duck and chicken eggs, broiler chickens, and Cornish game hens. Chicory Blue Gardens is bringing lots of sunflowers and pretty bouquets.

Happy Hooves Organic Farm will have certified organic 100% grass-fed and finished beef; certified organic no-soy high omega-3 chicken in fresh and frozen assortments including cuts such as breast, thighs, and wings; roasting ducks; poultry organs; eggs; and pasture-raised, organically-fed pork.  Nordic Farm Jams with have 4th of July jam, rhubarb jam bars and strawberry jam bars.  JonJohn’s Bakery will have German chocolate cake and peanut butter balls.  Brian’s Kitchen is bringing vegan molasses cookies, plus other gluten-free, sugar-free, and traditional flavors.  Tripleberry Farm will offer a new brownie made with the farm’s blueberries and Fisher Hill strawberries, plus berry jams and goat milk soaps.  Wohlschlegel’s Naples Maple Farm will have its full selection of maple products.  Lettuce B. Frank will have pork and veggie sausage gravy over cheddar scallion biscuits, plus mint iced tea and berry lemonade; bring your own cup for a discount.  Dalai Java will join us again with coffee.

Also at the Market

Watkins & the Rapiers will perform in the music tent.  A local girl scout troop will offer information on how to assess your “food print,” and will help children plant seeds and learn about local foods.  There will be information on how to volunteer with Brighton Volunteer Ambulance.  ColorBrightonGreen.org will accept hard-to-recycle items, and Brighton Food Cupboard will accept donations.

The Brighton Farmers’ Market is held Sundays from 9 am to 1 pm; during the summer, it will be held in the Temple B’rith Kodesh parking lot, 2131 Elmwood Avenue (between Twelve Corners and S. Clinton). Details on the market’s return to BHS will be posted at the market’s website, www.brightonfarmersmarket.org, as the season progresses.

The Brighton Farmers’ Market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.

See you Sunday!