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Market Newsletter – August 25,2015
From the Market Manager On Sunday I took a ride and ended up in West Brookfield at Ragged Hill Orchard. I was looking for another orchard where I had purchased a box of white peach seconds* a couple of...
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Market Newsletter – September 1, 2015
From the Market Manager I went up to Outlook Farm on Sunday. I saw the owners, Brad and Erin Morse whom I haven’t seen in awhile. Outlook is the only vendor who has been with us the whole time we’ve...
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Market Newsletter September 8, 2015
From the Market Manager Someone left their shopping bag at The Kitchen Garden’s stand last week. I put the notice on our Facebook page, and I sent an email to those that I have, but no one claimed it....
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Market Newsletter – September 15, 2015
From the Market Manager This week is the start of the Jewish New Year,year 5776. Every culture celebrates holidays with special food. The first thing we start with is an apple dipped in honey to wish...
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Market Newsletter – September 22, 2015
From the Market Manager We have 6 more weeks left in this market season. Where does the time go? On the 90+ degree days, it goes very slowly. I try not to complain about being uncomfortable because I...
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Market News – September 29, 2015
From the Market Manager What I am about to say has nothing to do with agriculture, or our market. It has to do with planning for your family. I don’t know if the reason I read the obituaries every day...
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Market News- October 6, 2015
From the Market Manager Here we are at the last month of our 2015 season. When we have 90+degree heat, it seems to drag, but with this weather it goes quickly Many people ask when we end our market; we...
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Market Newsletter – October 13, 2015
From the Market Manager We have 3 more weeks left (including this week) for this market. Please use your WIC and Elder coupons by the end of our market. They don’t carry over after the end of October....
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Market Newsletter October 20, 2015
From the Market Manager Please return your milk bottles to Trinity Farm; they are in dire need of their bottles. FYI, they have to import the bottles from Canada as no glass milk bottles are...
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Market News – 10-27, 2015
From the Market Manager Well, this is it; the last day of our 18th year of operation. It has been a good year. We had some issues with weather as we always do, but overall we were okay. I didn’t hear...
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Market News ~ June 14, 2016
From the Market Manager This past weekend I attended what probably is the last high school reunion that my class will have. I graduated from Longmeadow High School in 1959. Ours was the first class to...
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Market Newsletter ~ June 21, 2016
From the Market Manager I read an essay recently about the power of hand written recipes. I am sure that those of you that have recipes handed down to you by a parent or grandparent, can recognize the...
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Market Newsletter ~ June 28, 2016
From the Market Manager Because our market is so successful, I am regularly contacted by people interested in becoming a vendor at our market. This is very different from when we first started when it...
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Market Newsletter ~ July 5, 2016
From the Market Manager Can you believe that this is already week 10 of our market? I know that we all get into somewhat of a rut as far as what we make for meals, but I hope that you all try something...
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Market Newsletter ~ July 12, 2016
Fairly often in this newsletter I mention that two of the things that are most difficult for farmers are weather and labor. On Sunday a friend and I went up to Outlook Farm to their cherry festival...
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Market Newsletter ~ July 19, 2016
From the Market Manager Last week, one of our regular customers brought me a gift from a spice company on Cape Cod. This isn’t the first time someone has brought me a gift over the years, and, of...
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From the Market Manager We have voter’s registration forms at the market table.If you aren’t registered, please take one and send it in.The League of Women Voters worked for years to get the Motor...
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From the Market Manager If you go to our website, (address above) you will find an archive of recipes that have been given out through the years. This is the time of year when you should make recipes...
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Market Newsletter ~ August 9, 2016
From the Market Manager This is National Farmers’ Market Week. When we started our market in 1998, there were 98 farmers’ markets in Massachusetts; now there are over 250. In the U.S. there are more...
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Market Newsletter ~ August 16, 2016
From the Market Manager Last Friday night I had some of my family to dinner. I used lots of local ingredients for it. I love this time of year when I can be creative (or not) and no matter how...
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