Fashion fun, goat feta and flamenco

The Harlem Valley Homestead stall has put on quite the show this year. Between their tawny husk cherries, frilly mushrooms, and leggy sunflowers in burnished colors, it's quite possible you might have missed what's been going on in "wardrobe." Staffers Sarah and Sierra have been dressing as twins all season long. They plan their outfits on Thursday based on the weather of course, and on what items of clothing they have in common. "Do you have denim overalls and a flannel shirt? Check." "How about red suspenders?" It started on opening day. When Sarah told me it was a gimmick they were going to stick with through November I seriously had my doubts. How on earth do farmers have time to think about things like dressing "matchy matchy." Apparently, where there is a will, there is a way to make time for a little fun on the farm. Now that you know, you can check out their outfits each week.

Don't forget to pick up some sprouting cauliflower, and some of their Upstate Abundance and Adirondack Blue potatoes along with crates of honey nut squash while you're in their tent. What to do with these sweet, diminutive winter squash? Try this recipe from Bon Appetit.

Harlem Valley is also restocked with eggs! Their chickens are raised on pasture and play a supporting role in their composting systems by scratching and turning the farm's compost, resulting in extra bugs and worms to feed on, yielding a darker yolk and a firmer richer egg white. Taste the difference in your breakfast eggs or in your fall baking.

Speaking of fall baking, Food is Med is here this week with a panoply of spice blends, including his popular pumpkin spice.

And Charlotte's Home Kitchen is here with a new autumn cake inspired by the spicy orange marmalade at Marcelina Orange Treats. (who will be here next week!). Charlotte's cake is an orange blossom and cardamom cake with a spoonful of confectioner Dora's spicy marmalade for a little kick, and a blood orange icing. We love it when vendors get inspired by other vendors' products. Lucky for us, it happens all the time.

This is Sea Change Flower & Farm's last week at the market this season. While there's been no early frost, YET, the blossoms and plants are waning. Sam Ritter is going to have a busy winter! She just bought her own farm and will be transplanting as much as possible from the Accord, NY farm she's been leasing. The new farm will allow her to host weddings. How perfect is that?

Leila's Crepes returns this week and so is Pizza Vitale so there will be plenty of lunch options at the market which will be in the same location it was last week due to construction going on at the Cropsey Estate.

Don't forget to bring your knives for sharpening and your textiles for recycling and to make a donation to our food pantry fund. Every week we donate eggs and apples to the food pantry but we use your extra donations to also buy market produce, protein and breads and cheese, too.

See you at the market!