The High Summer issue of Edible East End just hit the streets, and the theme is local solutions to the global food and fuel crisis. For instance we profile a produce dealer who will save half a million gallons... More

The disease of EBS is a terrible one. Endemic to farmers' markets all over the Garden State, it hits particularly hard at the Collingswood Farmers' Market where it runs roughshod over an otherwise great group of farmers in a... More

One of the only poems I have committed to memory is “Blackberry Eating,” by Galway Kinnell, a fourteen line homage to the pleasures of picking produce at the peak of ripeness. (The Italian term scorpacciata, loosely translated as gorging on... More

A farmer has been suspended from the Greenmarket for selling meat that, though "pasture-raised" was imported from non-local sources. [New York Times] Multiple Union Square Vendors have watermelons. [Lucy's Greenmarket Report] If you're looking for something to do with... More

The last time we checked in on New York's Greenmarkets, it already seemed like high summer. The market was so overflowing with every imaginable berry, huge bunches of greens, summer squash, broccoli, lettuce, green garlic, and greenhouse tomatoes, it... More

Despite humidity and temperature climbing into the 90s, the Union Square Market was packed as ever this Friday and Saturday with shoppers angling for the first flush of greenhouse tomatoes—which will rule for a few more weeks until the... More

Summer has officially begun. Blueberries have arrived, the market is full of greens, and tomatoes are just around the corner. The Monday Union Square market "has become a great source of fresh produce, both organic and otherwise, with outstanding... More

--> I have to admit, reading the Market Scene last week for San Francisco inspired serious amounts of dismay in this New Yorker. Despite their lovely flavor and appealing looks, I am so. Tired. Of. Hearing. About. Ramps. As is,... More