We love the Waltham Farmer's Market. Not only do you find a variety of fresh local food, but you directly support farmers in your community (plus it's one of the few that is open on Saturdays in our area). The taste and quality cannot be beat by chain supermarkets with food that is often picked weeks ago, transported thousands of miles and ripened by ethanol gas, and the price is comparable. By reducing the space and time between farm and table we:
We mainly buy our fruits like raspberries, peaches, and nectarines from Bart's Farm Stand from Leominster, MA and our veggies from Heaven's Harvest Farm from New Braintree, MA. Heaven's Harvest always has a wide selection you can't find at most other stands - lemon boy cucumbers, garlic scapes, kohlrabi, red onion, kale, and uncommon squashes. We also like Flats Manor Farm for some rarer greens like amaranth, purslane, bok choy and a variety of fresh herbs. You can also find pasta and sauces from the Pasta Man, and homemade soaps, body oils and loofas from Donna Dee's Designs. Jessica led a Farmer's Market Tour through the Copley Square Farmer's Market this summer for her coworkers at her old job at Wayfair as part of Wellness Programming. Check out this guide to shopping at farmer's market she put together for anyone looking for quick tips before heading out.
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We’ve got several uninvited guests to the garden party, and for a while didn’t know who any of them were (well, we're more like the uninvited guests, since many of them were here before us!). We picked up this book – Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast – a great field guide by Peter Del Tredici that helped us to identify several of these visitors and learn more about them. We highly recommend this easy to use field guide, as it has opened our eyes to plants we've seen every single day, but can't name. Here are some we found (there are definitely many more) pictured below with a brief description of uses as provided by the field guide: Jewelweed, Pokeberry, Yellow Nutsedge, White Campion, Pale Smartweed, Lambsquarters, Purslane, Dandelion, Greater Celandine, Spotted Spurge, Bittersweet Nightshade, Wild Mint, Yellow Woodsorrel, Fireweed, and Garlic Mustard. We've also seen (but don't picture) Yellow Flag Iris, Bindweed and many others. So far we've eaten Dandelion greens, garlic mustard, purslane, and played a lot with the exploding seed pods of the jewelweed. What wild plants have you found in your area that you find particularly useful?
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