Fall Harvest Begins at Needham Farmers Market

From the Needham Farmers Market:

Come to see all that the Fall Harvest has to offer for your dinner table at the Needham Farmers Market! An amazing assortment of locally grown apples, root vegetables, squashes, corn on the cob, garlic and greens to fill up your plate as the chilly weather begins. Enjoy lunch from the Center Café and stroll to the music as you shop, support local farmers, fishermen and eat healthy. Fun, friends, and Fall at the Needham Farmers Market this Sunday!

Vendors at the Needham Farmers Market this Sunday include MacArthur Farm, Neighborhood Farm, Boston Sword and Tuna, and Deano’s Pasta. Karen Price from the League of Voters Needham will be available to chat about voter registration. Kenny Raskin and One Card Down will be playing music to warm our souls!

Neighborhood Farm will have an assortment of apples and all of your favorites including new varieties of garlic, cherry, sungold, grape, sauce, and slicing tomatoes and sweet peppers. Also, leeks, several types of potatoes, hot peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, scallion, cucumbers, kale, lettuces, leafy greens, fresh garlic, onions, zucchini, summer squash, carrots, beets, and more!

MacArthur Farm will also return this week with potatoes, eggplant, green and red peppers, Chioggia beets, and multi-colored carrots. Try some fresh, organic broccoli, cauliflower, wax and green beans, pickling cucumbers, radishes, greens, various types of lettuce, rhubarb, herbs, zucchini, cousa, summer squash, sugar snap and shell peas, carrots, scallions, golden and red beets and of course, sweet peaches, apples, various melons, local and Maine blueberries and Acres Honey. Now a favorite, MacArthur Farm is also offering delicious and fresh, baked the same day Framingham Baking Co. Italian and French bread and rolls that have no preservatives to go with your soups and stews.

Located behind the Needham Bank in Needham Center, the Needham Farmers Market is open on Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. New at the Needham Farmers Market: You can now sign up to receive updates and text reminders from the Needham Farmers Market regarding market dates and times, special prices on produce and fish in season, lunch specials, and events happening weekly at the

Market. You can receive these reminders by texting @needham to 81010.

Photo courtesy of the Needham Farmers Market