No one can accuse upstate weather of being boring; our farmers have certainly not been bored this week.  Imagine having your livelihood dependent on the cooperation of weather as temperamental as ours.  The farmers will have tales to tell this week of how they braved the elements to bring the most delicious mid-summer harvest of fruits and vegetables to the Brighton Farmers’ Market.  This week there will be tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet corn, and lots of beans — purple beans from Ann’s Purple Produce, and wax, green snap, french filet, red swan, rattle snake, and  dragon tongue beans from Organic Matters Farm, which will also have blackberries and possibly the first small watermelons.  K&S Bischoping Farm will have Garnet Beauty peaches, apricots, and raspberries.  There will also be plums, cherries, currants, and lots of blueberries — Kim of Tripleberry Farm reports that they are at their peak this week.  Chicory Blue Gardens will bring lots of long stem sunflowers and pretty zinnias, including white and giant wine zinnias.  Seaway Trail Honey has just harvested some pale, golden raw honey.  Honeyhill Farm is bringing certified organic cured keeper garlic and jumbo roaster garlic, sweet candy onions, golden beets, and fresh pasture-raised chicken.

Grant Cos and Babak Elahi are returning to the market music tent this Sunday.  Reema Singh of the Environmental Health Sciences Center at the U of R Medical Center will join us to help people learn how to conduct their own home health screenings.  The  Brighton Volunteer Ambulance and staff will return to do blood pressure tests and provide information about the wonderful service they provide the community.  Kids at the Good Grub Club will receive a summer squash card to add to their growing collection.

The Brighton Farmers’ Market is held Sundays, 9 am to 1 pm (rain or shine), in the Brighton High School parking lot, 1150 Winton Road South, Rochester.  The market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.  Visit brightonfarmersmarket.org, or visit us on Facebook.