Union Square Greenmarket

[ellen_datlow]

Not sure why I went over there today but I wanted to get out a bit and am glad I did. During the week (especially Monday) it was looking a bit sparse and I figured the summer harvests were over and winter was closing in...but today. Wow! I bought a bunch of gladiolas for $7 (I could have bought 2 for $12 but couldn't have handled two bunches), yellow-orange tomatoes, a bunch of carrots (for carrot juice), some chestnuts (from an American tree, pretty uncommon nowadays), and some bosch pears.

I would have bought more but that was about all I could carry. I was tempted to buy more succulants and/or cacti-I'm always tempted but realized I'd have to be more careful about what I put in my carry bag if I did so. Another time.

There were wildflowers and domesticated flowers for sale all over the market. Tomatoes of all types (although my favorite, the little sungolds have just finished their season), rasberries (I was hoping for blueberries, but I guess that season's over), watermelon, which I always want but can't carry home--too bulky--pumpkins, cauliflower and the broccoli/cauliflower mix apples, potatoes, cheeses and meat and fish and eggs. Breads of all types...and crowds. It was so crowded that it was a little uncomfortable, but I know that everyone--like me-- was enjoying the last lush greenmarkets of the season.

Although they run all year round now, by winter, pickings are pretty slim and usually it's mostly bread, eggs, turkey sausage, honey, wine, jam, pretzel, and maybe an apple stand or two that are there regularly.

I adore New York.

Comments

[lagilman]

*whimpers*

Not that I dislike where I am right now, but there are days I really, really miss Manhattan outside my door.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

About half my freezer has tupperwares of blueberries I froze to eat in winter. They won't last that long, of course, but I have to put other things in the freezer, too.

[safewrite.livejournal.com]

I love the little Greenmarket behind The Bull at the very southern tip of Broadway, in front of the Smithsonian. I used to work on projects involving the Staten Island Ferry or at 2 Broadway and I shopped there every Wednesday. *sigh* I miss it still.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Hi, Ellen. Sorry I missed the chat this morning: slept in. Bloody time zones.

I saw raspberries EVERYWHERE...

[themadblonde]

@ our local farmers' market this past Thursday & was suprised- I thought raspberry season was finished months ago- or is there a second crop? It's also the start of apple season up here. Minnesotans are SERIOUS about their apples, probably because we've only had locally grown ones available for a decade or so. Not as many pumpkins @ the market as there usually is by this time, but the stores seem to have plenty. & I got some FABULOUS baking potatoes the other day. Mmmmm, such wonderful flavour they had.

OK, now I'm hungry....