This Sunday the Brighton Farmers’ Market will be celebrating Halloween and the last day of the regular market season.  Thanks to all who have supported the market this year; it’s been a great year, our best ever.   We’ll be celebrating with free cider, and everyone  in costume will get a free apple.  The Good Grub Club will wind up the year with pumpkin decorating — kids can make veggie faces on pumpkins to scare off any vegetable-hating goblins.  Guess the weight of a giant pumpkin and take it home.  The spookiest band in Rochester, Clamor, will once again end the season for us with a musical bang.

The last day of the season does not mean slim pickings at the market; farmers are still busy harvesting their beautiful fall crops.  Kurt Forman of Clearview Farm will have winter squash; pie pumpkins; arugula; broccoli raab; sweet, jalapeno, and poblano peppers; eggplant; beet greens; four kinds of kale and escarole;  baby daikon radishes; Asian greens for stir-fry or salad; mustard greens; and turnip greens.  Honeyhill Farm will have four varieties of potatoes, including the farm’s new russet baking potato, golden beets, leeks, and lots of fresh and ripe red sweet peppers.  Organic Matters Farm is bringing kale, small cabbages, peppers, and acorn squash.  There will be lots of flowers , bittersweet, and leeks from Ann’s Purple Produce, and Biscotti for Everybotti is bringing biscotti made from East Hill Farm’s Red Curry Squash, Bischoping Farm’s apples, and Organic Matters Farm’s wheat.  Allen’s Hill Farm will have light and medium amber and grade B organic maple syrup from Schoolyard Sugarbush in Moravia.  Several farmers will have apples and pears, and there will be fresh apple cider.  Keith Myers’ new bakery, Flour City Bread Co., is up and running, and Keith will join us Sunday with his wonderful crusty breads, croissants, and cookies.

LONG SEASON WINTER FARMERS’ MARKET

Next Sunday, November 7, is opening day of our winter market, the Long Season Winter Farmers’ Market, so you don’t have to miss a week of great, local food from our farmers and producers.  Join us from 1 to 4 pm in the large gym at Brighton’s Brookside Community Center, 220 Idlewood Road, with a second entrance off S. Winton just south of the Westfall/S.Winton intersection.   The market is once again a collaboration between the Brighton and South Wedge Farmers’ Markets, and many of your favorite vendors from those markets will be there offering wonderful local products through December 19. 

The last market of the regular season will be held Sunday from 9 to 1 in the Brighton High School parking lot, 1150 Winton Road South.  The market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.  See www.brightonfarmersmarket.org, or visit us on Facebook.

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