July 17, 2008
Farmer’s Market Season!
One of our concerns, moving away from Cambridge and JP, was food. Would we be able to get Indian food? Brazilian BBQ? And how would we get through the summer without big CSA boxes full of veggies?
Beverly and Salem don’t disappoint — there’s no Moody’s falafel, but Maria’s has awesome gyros on homemade pita, and we love Anmal, Beverly’s Indian joint. And while we aren’t really in CSA range, we have farmstands, farmer’s markets, and local food.
Farmer’s markets are a great reason to get up before noon on summer weekends, and the Marblehead Farmer’s Market is exquisite: the baked goods are world class, and the cheeses — from small private creameries in Vermont and central Mass. — are rare treats. Add cheap veggies, super cheap fresh herbs and cut flowers, fair trade coffee, and handmade, natural casing lamb-and-feta sausages, and you can have a heck of a breakfast while you shop for dinner.
Bring a lot of cash and a cooler — you’ll want to stock up on artisan goat cheeses and local, organic meats.The Beverly and Gloucester markets are mid-week and much smaller, although the produce is great.
For information on North Shore farmer’s markets and farm stands, check out Blue Heron Local Cuisine.
goldlentil said:
Mike,
There are a lot of local CSAs in the North Shore. There’s a veggie CSA from Appleton Farms in Ipswich, a winter (and summer!) CSA from Green Meadow Farms in Hamilton, and there’s even a meat co-op called Essex Natural Meat Co-op and a meat CSA from Stillmans Farms that delivers to Marblehead.
Check out blueheronlocal.wordpress.com for a CSA link list (and other links, including some for you city localvores) soon.
-goldlentil
July 17, 2008 2:12 PM