WOW! The weather is going to be glorious for our first outdoor market of 2012. If you planned your spring break around tomorrow’s farmers market, you won’t be disappointed. While we still won’t have all of our greens vendors until June, there should be plenty of just harvested tender lettuces, baby spinach and mesclun available….

Long-stemmed roses are nice. Locally-grown food is better! Why not celebrate waking up next to the one you love on Tuesday with some wholesome granola at the market? You can find some at the Bread Alone stand, as well as the True Food of Nyack table and at Tierra Farm.  Try a sample from each…

Come shop the Hastings Farmers Market tomorrow! We are open from 9 am. to 1 p.m. at the James Harmon Community Center. For many, it’s a three-day weekend, and a cold one at that – (our Johnny come-lately winter has arrived) so load up on all things “soup”. This is the time of year when…

…must scale back in winter. Tomorrow is our last weekly farmers’ market in Hastings. Starting Dec. 10th, we will be operating on a monthly basis, always on the second Saturday. Please check the website (www.hastingsfarmersmarket.org ) to find out if we are in the library lot or at the community center on Main St. or…

if you’re trying your best to eat local, this is the time of year to truly embrace the apple. The plump juicy berries of summer are still dancing on our mind’s tongue, but what we’re faced with at the market is well, apples. Crates and crates of different  varieties of apples. Every year I like…