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The Wooster Square Market is open Saturday January 10 from 10 AM to 1 PM. The Wholesome Wave market in Fairfield is not open this week (because of the roof and the impending weather).

Saturday was a mostly one-stop forage—I went to the Wholesome Wave indoor winter market in Fairfield. I scored: Heavy cream and egg nog from Trinity Dairy, Enfield (Smyth Family). Pleasant Valley (sheep) cheese from Beaver Brook Farm. Parsnips, celeriac, and carrots from Riverbank Farm. Riverbank also has jars of their own tomatoes (I sure wish [...]

Forget the mall and big-box store madness. If you want to do some holiday shopping that will really get you in the spirit, here’s a bit of what’s going on around here: There’s a Holiday Market & Café going on at St John’s Episcopal Church, 5 Washington Avenue, Sandy Hook (10 AM to 5 PM). [...]

It was wonderful foraging at the Wooster Square Market in New Haven on Saturday (apart from it being 24°). There was an uptown kind of bustle going on, this being the “last local shopping day” before the holiday. And it is a food holiday. I picked up numerous items, most of which will end up [...]

NOTE: This is a re-post…the original was a victim of some over-zealous housecleaning and an inattentive mouse. The Wholesome Wave Winter Farmers Market is opening for the season at the Fairfield Theatre Company on Saturday, November 22, 2008. It looks like all of the wonderful farmers and vendors from last year are returning! Hours are [...]

November 1 was the nineteenth week of our CSA  (Waldingfield Farm). The pick-up point is no longer the Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market since last week was the last week of that market. This week we picked up our share at the Wooster Square Market in New Haven. We scored: purple potatoes leeks acorn squash [...]

September 30 was the fifteenth week of our CSA  (Waldingfield Farm, pick-up point Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market behind St. John’s Episcopal Church). We scored: three heads of lettuce mustard greens broccoli rabe greens two bags of potatoes several mini eggplants green beans assorted tomatoes butternut squash acorn squash In honor of all of those [...]

Saturday, 9/27/08 Cherry Grove Farm, Newtown, CT a variety of hot peppers Bethel Farmers Market Don Taylor Farm 20 pounds of their own tomatoes and peaches from Bronzi Farm in Glastonbury Newtown Cedar Hill Farm beets Blue Jay Orchards Macoun apples–18 pounds of them This is it; the Macoun season is over. No more Macoun [...]

September 23 was the fourteenth week of our CSA  (Waldingfield Farm, pick-up point Sandy Hook Organic Farmer’s Market behind St. John’s Episcopal Church). We scored: – two heads of lettuce and another bag of salad greens – two bags of multi-colored potatoes – two eggplants – green beans – assorted tomatoes Check out my Waldingfield [...]

Saturday was a fun forage…we went here, there and it seemed, everywhere! We began at the Bethel Farmer’s Market where I picked up numerous items from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm,  Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Goat Boy Soap: We continued on to Blue Jay Orchards for some apples. (They don’t have Macouns yet.) [...]