May 22, 2021

Things are looking up.

From now until Thanksgiving, the market will be open every week from 8:30 to 1 p.m. We have so much news to share with you it will be hard to keep it to one blog. Here goes:

This week we welcome back Stoneberry Farm with their beautifully bundled green garlic, red leaf lettuce heads and radishes in rustic pine boxes. Farmers Hunter and Connor have spent this winter experimenting with new farming techniques, like putting their spring brassicas on plastic mulch which cuts down on weeds and retains moisture. They've also been doing a lot experimenting in the kitchen. What did they miss most about the HFM? Their regular customers, of course, says Hunter, but, not gonna lie, "Don Carvajal's iced coffee is a very close second."

We are excited to welcome a new farm to the market mix this year.
SOVA Farm in Norwich, NY specializes in poultry and premium eggs.
(Their eggs were voted among the Top Ten in the country by The Cornucopia Institute).

From April to November their hens are on pasture 24/7. Each hen has well over 108 sq. ft. of room to roam around and scratch and do hen stuff. Farmers Ed and Rose wash their eggs with pure spring water.

It's a little early in the season for fresh chicken right now, but they will be bringing lots of it in June and then will be adding duck (whole and breasts) and geese to their repertoire. Ed and Rose also grow aromatic herbs and they sell them in $3 bouquets, ideal for stuffing their whole birds. (They really did think of everything). And, they also sell milk and buttermilk from neighboring Kriemhild Dairy. They will be coming to the market on the second and fourth Saturday of each month.

Morgiewicz Produce won't be here this week since we are opening a little earlier this year and their fields aren't quite ready for prime time. They hope to join us next week. Wright's Farm will be here though their strawberries won't be ready for a couple more weeks. That's ok. They're bringing other orchard items like: raspberry and blackberry apple sauce – and syrups for summer cocktails.

Speaking of summer sipping... Freefall Sangria returns with both white and red Sangria made with Hudson Valley fruit.

Mom & Ice Pops returns just in time for this spate of July weather. They're the folks with the cool popsicle flavors like rhubarb with lime, or black sesame seed. Oh how we've missed their color palette.

The Misshapened Bowl will be here to help those of you looking for a unique gift for someone special. Charles Lazarus uses local fallen trees to make his bowls, all hand-turned. Heck it's been a terrible year, gift yourself with one of these beauties.

Also, sampling is now allowed at the markets again. Huzzah! La Petite Occasion is bringing samples of her bourbon vanilla treats.

Sometimes what a plain scoop of vanilla ice cream needs is a drizzle of blood orange olive oil and some sea salt. Enter Arlotta Food Studio. They will be joining us once a month with their flavored organic olive oils, including lemon, basil and yes, blood orange.

We have new t-shirts for the new season in all sizes and onesies, too.
We really can't wait to show them to you.

The pandemic led many of us to confront our overflowing closets. What to do with those bags of clothes just waiting to be repurposed? What to do with those bags and boxes of clothes just waiting to be repurposed? Bring them to our new textile recycling bin at the market. The bin will be dropped off every Saturday morning and removed at day's end courtesy of Green Tree Textile Recycling. Not only does this company save your clothes from the landfill but they hire people with disabilities to help sort them. We're so happy to finally be able to add this service to our market.

And, in other feel-good news: We are happy to report that we can again divert Market-generated food scraps from landfills thanks to generous sponsorship from Hasting Compost Services a certified B-corp founded by three Hastings High School students in their senior year. They will be at the Market every Saturday, collecting your croissant wrappers, ice-pop sticks, and pizza crusts and hauling it all down to Greenburgh's collection site. Save your household scraps for their weekly pickup service — we won't have enough room for all your watermelon rinds and chicken carcasses. Lucky for us HCS does! Learn more about their affordable, curbside pickup on their website (link again) We also want to take a moment to shout-out the Hastings Conservation Committee, whose decades-long work has paved the way for all of these initiatives.

See you at the "summer" market!
And, because it's now a 10-year tradition, Milton will be performing on opening day.