Fruits & Vegetables

Fresh from the farmers’ fields to our market. We offer a large variety of seasonal fruits & vegetables grown by local farmers. When possible we try to acquire fruits and vegetables that are spray-free and sometimes organic.

We open the SPRING season around mid-March.   The season begins with fresh local asparagus, spring onions, and rhubarb along with some southern produce. As the weather warms up more local produce arrives…red ripe tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, lettuce, peppers, cabbage, turnips, squash, and more. Sweet local juicy strawberries fill our shelves in mid to latter May.

Early SUMMER brings sugar snap peas, hull peas, blueberries, then cherries arrive. Summer means blackberries, red raspberries, and black raspberries. Freshly picked green  beans and lima beans come too. Sweet cold watermelons, cantaloupes, honeydew, honey melons, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots fill our market.   We have yellow peaches, white peaches and sweet doughnut peaches…you have to try them!

There are cantaloupes of all sizes and several varieties including the famous “Boonsboro Cantaloupe” Hearts of Gold. Grown for generations these cantaloupes overflowed in half bushel baskets lining our sidewalks years ago.  We have red watermelons with seeds and seedless, bright red sugar babies, and sweet yellow dolls (yellow inside).  Fresh local sweet corn arrives daily. There is nothing like biting into the sweetness of fresh local sweet corn that pops with every bite.

FALL means apples galore. In our peak season you can find as many as 20 different varieties at one time on our stand. They’re great for baking, sauce, frying, cider, and just plain eating. There is nothing like freshly pressed sweet apple cider that is chilled or heated with mulling spices to warm you up on a cool Fall day.

Bins of pumpkins in all shapes, sizes, and colors arrive. We have crates filled with colorful Fall squash ready for baking, stuffing, frying and can even be used for Fall decorating.

The WINTER season provides late local apples great for wintering over. There is nothing like the smell of a fresh apple pie baking in the oven while the snow is falling outside. Local chestnuts can be baked, boiled, or even eaten raw.

We also have sweet Florida citrus including oranges, tangerines, tangelos, and grapefruit.   Fruit baskets are available for the holiday season.