Successful for me, for sure!  Along with another supply of those great yellow tomatoes, I bought  a package of tea from Backyard Naturals last Saturday, a jar of Paradise Found Farm‘s great pesto and a pomegranate. I haven’t tried the pomegranate yet (it looks good!), but on Saturday there was a huge basket full of [...]

Yesterday, the market celebrated the approaching autumn with a “High Tea in the A.M.” – lovely, fragrant teas (I had the Hibiscus – wonderful), finger sandwiches and sweet bars, clusters, cookies and scones (too many to try!). My purchases included an Amish Apple Cake from Apple Annie’s Cupboard. I’ll have to call Annie one of these days [...]

These glorious tomatoes will be sauce tomorrow! This yellow one was half eaten before it occurred to me to take a picture of it. A great piece of bread (Prairie Bread from Whole Foods), topped by slices of Cheddar cheese, a few leaves of Basil (from my own garden), and then thick slices of this [...]

The HFM this year is not what it used to be. I loved it in the parking lot of the old train depot  in 2007 (lots of produce being sold from truck beds under the shade of overhanging trees), it was fine in 2008 in the City Hall parking lot, and, as long as we applied plenty [...]

Bill Jaynes, beekeeper and farmers’ market expert is also an accomplished photographer. Take a look at some of his shots of the past several weeks.

The market was not as busy as usual last Saturday (conventional wisdom: lots of people were at car dealerships, to trade in their ‘clunkers’ . . . .!), but the offerings were plentiful. Still lots of tomatoes and peppers (plus some squash, corn and okra), but don’t wait too many more Saturdays to go and buy some, [...]

There are many reasons for visiting the Hoschton Farmers’ Market: the ambience, the opportunity to see old – and new – friends, community support, and more. One of the best reasons is buying fresh produce and discovering new products. Tom (he of the Blueberry Sauce – see July 4 post) was at the market last Saturday with [...]

The market was very busy this morning, with additional vendors and lots of buyers. While I was pondering whether or not to buy this Golden Hubbard Squash from Paradise Found Farm (enough for a week’s worth of meals!), someone else came by and snapped it up.   My luck held, though, at the Habermans’ stand, where [...]

I thought you might like to see a collage of the many plots (each 20×20, full of vegetables and flowers) photographed at Lanier Community Gardens on July 20.

Gwinnett County has its first public community garden (Lanier, in Buford) and the City of Suwanee will have one soon (88 applications already received) and perhaps some day there will be one in Hoschton, or Braselton, or one of the other small towns in this area. I am not among those who believe that farmers’ [...]