As September shifts from steamy summer to cooling fall, locally-grown fruit and vegetables blast a fall food fanfare for apples, pumpkins, root veggies, and more.
Get your baskets ready and your taste buds in gear, ‘cause, friends, Yum abounds at your local farmers markets.
A top seller this season is the super spud, the ever-popular sweet potato. Thumb through your family recipes for sweet potato pie, soufflé, casserole, and sweet potato fries. Baked, mashed, smashed, souped, curried, stewed, marshmallow’d, and roasted, sweet potatoes are a nutritious staple in your larder all fall and winter.
Red, pink, green, and golden apples are rolling in. Texture, color, fragrance, and, oh, the pie-potential is Eden-all-over-again. The temptation to load up an extra basket this season is bound to ap-peal.
Pumpkins are on the way. Add their delicious, healthy essence to the holiday pie list. Buy an extra Punkie for Halloween deco.
Beets, kale, turnips, and more are on the Fall docket. Couple those with fresh meat, honey, dairy, pastry, treats, and creations that have the feel, heart, and the essence of mountain and valley hand-grown and hand-made products.
Visit the markets: Highlands Farmers Marketplace (Saturdays from 8:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. in Kelsey-Hutchinson Park on Pine Street). Call Don if you want to join the vendor clan at (828) 342-8239.
Locally Grown at Village Green opens with 25 vendors every Wednesday, now through October 29, 11:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. at 60 Frank Allen Road in Cashiers. Call (828) 743-3434 for more information.
Both markets are easily accessible, clean, and accommodating. Free parking is for all drivers attending the markets.
See you there. Buy all the scrumptious produce your baskets can contain. Return the following week and do it all again with new crops and mouth-watering goodies.
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