Let’s celebrate the beginning of August in a most appropriate setting — surrounded by the lush fruits and vegetables of summer at the Brighton Farmers’ Market.  This week farmers will offer ripe heirloom tomatoes, sweet corn, summer squash, onions, garlic, chard, beets, carrots, cauliflower, and broccoli this week, plus the sweetest peaches, plums, blueberries, and juicy nectarines.  Organic Matters Farm is bringing certified organic yellow flesh watermelon, bi-color sweet corn, several varieties of beans, beets, radishes,  cherry tomatoes, peppers, sunflowers, swiss chard, collards, kale, summer squash, and slicer and pickling cucumbers.  Another certified organic grower, Clearview Farm, will offer rapini (young broccoli raab), Shunkyo semi-long radishes, cantaloupe, beet greens, and escarole.  Liz Sanders of Green Zebra Farm will bring purple peppers along with her heirloom tomatoes.  Two of our honey vendors, Bloomfield Honey and Nissen’s Honey, are merging; both of their delicious honeys will still be available at the market, along with Seaway Trail Honey, freshly harvested this week.  Also find cut flowers, plants, sustainably-raised meats, eggs, dairy, fresh pasta, baked goods, and much more.

The Brighton Farmers’ Market house band, Clamor, returns to banish any summer doldrums, and kids can visit the Good Grub Club tent for Plum Day.  Wild Wings, the local organization that cares for injured birds of prey, will bring some of their beautiful birds to the market from 11 to 12:30, and welcomes donations to help support their good work.   Brighton Volunteer Ambulance returns to the market, offering blood pressure screenings and health information.

The Brighton Farmers’ Market is held Sundays from 9 am to 1 pm in the Brighton High School parking lot, 1150 Winton Road South.  The market is sponsored by the Town of Brighton.  Visit Facebook or www.brightonfarmersmarket.org.

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