Today we went all over the place…we missed our usual haunts while we were on vacation: our farms, our markets, our farmers.
We began at the Bethel Farmers Market. We got lots of goodies, too numerous to mention from Newtown Cedar Hill Farm, Maple Bank Farm, Don Taylor’s Farm, and Vaszauskas Farm. By the way Don, those peppers were sweet, not hot! Hat tip to Don’s son Matt (welcome back Matt). The highlight item of the day was apples. I had a Paula Red, my first apple of the season! I sure did miss these, but it was worth the wait. Just a little bit longer until Macouns…
Then it was on to Holbrooks Farm on the other side of Bethel for some greens, Rose’s berries, fresh mozz (from New Pond), a delicious blueberry scone, and a few other things.
Onward to Stuarts Family Farm in Bridgewater to replenish our stockpile of beef. We closed out the day at Cherry Grove Farm in Newtown for extremely local honey and also got some habeneros and lots of other fresh delights. Okay, back to the kitchen for some serious puttin’ by.