Need post-Thanksgiving inspiration?

Visit Cheverly Community Market on Pinterest for over 7,000 recipes as well as tips and techniques to help you get the most from your market purchases. We've searched the web for wonderful ways to reimagine your Thanksgiving leftovers, celebrate Hanukkah, and eat healthy between all those holiday celebrations.

And don't forget, our annual Holiday Market is coming up in just two weeks. Visit us on Saturday, December 14, and support local small businesses through your purchases of handmade art and craft and locally produced foods and wines. This season, go local!

This week at the Market: Rebert Farm/Benny's Fruit Stand

What can we say? Rebert Farm/Benny's Fruit Stand will have a great variety of apples, fresh pressed cider, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onions at Cheverly Community Market. 

This produce is so beautiful that we really don't have words. Well, maybe a few words...like delicious, scrumptious, delightful, tempting, exquisite, luscious, enticing, mouthwatering, ambrosial, heavenly, yummy... Okay, we do have some words for how we feel about the amazing produce that the Rebert brothers bring to us. Stop by this Saturday and start your own list! 

Looking for some fun caramel or candied apple recipes for Halloween week? We've got some great ones  on our Pinterest recipes page!

It's pumpkin season!

Some fruits and vegetables are icons of their season -- delicate strawberries and asparagus in spring, peaches, watermelon and corn in summer -- we think that fall's iconic vegetable (okay, technically a fruit) is the pumpkin. Think about it: blended pumpkin drinks at the first nip of cool weather, decorated pumpkins in late October, pumpkin pies to celebrate Thanksgiving...

Today, we're celebrating the pumpkin on Pinterest. We have pinned loads of recipes to nourish you breakfast through dinner, savory and sweet. Need to know how to make your own pumpkin puree? Here's a great method.

This week at the Market: Shlagel Farms

It's harvest time at Shlagel Farms, and we are the lucky beneficiaries of all the heard work that's going on at the farm!

 Visit Eileen (and her local helper, Micah) this Saturday for wonderful locally grown squash, three types of zucchini, three types of eggplant, green, red and speciality peppers, tomatoes, and corn...

 the first pumpkins of autumn...

 ...and brown eggs, apples, mums, kale, collards, swiss chard, beets, onions, cucumbers and green beans...all local, healthy and delicious. We have thousands of recipes featuring these great ingredients on our Pinterest page. Need reusable bags to bring all your Market purchases home? Visit the big green Market tent! We're running a special on our logo bags -- $2 each or 3 bags for $5. Fall in Love with Food this Saturday at Cheverly Community Market!

Special message: Great deal on tomatoes from Shlagel Farms

Shlagel Farms has a mountain of tomatoes this week, and they're selling 25lb boxes (equal to 1/2 bushel) of SMALL tomatoes for just $12.00. They are perfect for canning or freezing, making your own mountain of salsa or just plain eating! (To help you along, we're posting all sorts of great tomato-based recipes over on Pinterest today.)

Interested? Please e-mail Eileen directly and she'll bring orders to the Market this Saturday.

This week at the Market: Waltz Family Farm

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We're still smelling the delectable scents of grill smoke from our Independence Day celebrations. Whether you cooked steaks, hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken, pork, eggplants, onions, garlic, corn, peaches -- or maybe all of these -- last weekend, we're ready to fire up the grill again this weekend! Mmmm...steaks, anyone? Waltz Family Farm has a good selection of meats coming your way. For you bacon lovers, they’ll have some, but visit Laurie  early because it’s a limited supply.

And don't forget, we have loads of grilling tips on Pinterest!

Meals from the Market: What are your favorite things to cook with Market fresh food?

As we look forward to Saturday and replenishing our pantries with fresh, local foods, we look all over the internet for the best recipes and techniques to make the most of items available at Cheverly Community Market. We collect those recipes and techniques on our Pinterest pages every day, and highlight items you'll be able to find in the coming weeks when you shop with us.

We use all those recipes as jumping off points for our own recipes. And that's how this...

 Becomes this...

As we approach Saturday (and the Maryland Buy Local Challenge Week July 20-28) -- and later our Annual Farm to Table Potluck (August 10) -- we hope you'll find some inspiration on our Pinterest and other resources -- from cookbook collections to magazines to websites. Here's a wonderful article via The Kitchn: Ten Meals Straight from the Farmer's Market. There are great ideas throughout the article, and wonderful variations in the comments. We hope you find something to jumpstart your creative cooking there.

This is an ideal time of year to takes some flights of fancy in your cooking -- produce is abundant, herbs are plentiful, and the ideas are overflowing!

SPECIAL MESSAGE: We have postponed our Annual Farm to Table Potluck and are currently reviewing possible dates for the Fall. If you've already purchased tickets, we will refund your money, or you may hold on to your ticket for the future date. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your continued support.

What a gorgeous morning...thanks for spending it with us!

SPECIAL MESSAGE: We have postponed our Annual Farm to Table Potluck and are currently reviewing possible dates for the Fall. If you've already purchased tickets, we will refund your money, or you may hold on to your ticket for the future date. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your continued support.

We had a wonderful morning at Cheverly Community Morning and hope you did, too. We lucked into gorgeous weather, and with so many friends and neighbors spending time together, it would have been a real challenge to not have a good time. As always, special thanks to our fantastic vendors and volunteers -- the Market couldn't happen without you! Also, a big thanks to the Eleanor Roosevelt Dixieland Jazz Combo...we love you!

We'll post photos on flickr soon, but for now, we're enjoying the first peaches of summer, delicious cherries, challah with homemade preserves, and farm-fresh eggs. We're looking forward to a Fourth of July with real local wine, thick, juicy steaks, wonderful seafood, local fruits and vegetables and delicious cupcakes, cookies, ice cream and more! We'll be posting recipes on Pinterest throughout the week to get you fired up for holiday cookouts and picnics!

Don't forget, you can buy tickets to our Annual Farm to Table Potluck (August 10) online or at the big green Market tent during any Market. It's going to be a great celebration of local food and cooking, and we're really looking forward to it! And, if you haven't already done so, please take a moment to vote for Cheverly Community Market in American Farm;and Trust's 2013 America's Favorite Farmer's Markets Contest.

The bounty of June...in photos!

We've posted photos from Saturday's Market in our flickr group -- what a vibrant day! 

Looking for ways to get the most out of your local produce and groceries throughout the season? We're here to help. Visit us on Pinterest!

Fun new ways to follow Cheverly Community Market!

You know that Cheverly Community Market is a big fan -- and user -- of social media. We're always searching for new ways to communicate with you and share the Market with an ever-wider audience. We've found that people enjoy photos and things where they can get a sense of what Cheverly Community Market looks like and what to expect to find. So today, we've launched two new venues -- CheverlyMarket on Vine and CheverlyCommunityMarket on Instagram. We hope you enjoy both and explore them (and contribute by using the #CheverlyMarket hashtag in your own posts!)

So what are these new programs? Well, Vine is a mobile app by Twitter that enables its users to create and post short video clips. Video clips created with Vine have a maximum length of six seconds and can be shared on a variety of social networking services, such as Twitter or Facebook. Instagram is an online photo sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as media sites including Facebook or Twitter. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to KodakInstamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. (Thanks to Wikipedia for the succinct definitions!).
Today, we posted a short video on Vine of the delicious items we picked up at the off-season pickup from Shlagel Farms and Waltz Family Farm (thanks to Eileen and Laurie for making the trek to Cheverly on a blustery early spring morning!) We also took a few photos and posted them to Instagram. We're looking forward to having fun with these apps in our upcoming season and really bringing you the sights and sounds of Cheverly Community Market as they happen!

Ways to follow Cheverly Community Market -- Explore them all!
Our website -- the biggest source of information for vendors and customers about Cheverly Community Market
Our blog -- the latest scoop on our vendors, interesting stuff, and more
Flickr -- Cheverly Community Market in nearly 10,000 photos and counting!
Facebook -- an ongoing conversation with you abuot all things Cheverly Community Market (also here)
Twitter -- links to our stories and ideas we think you'll find interesting
Pinterest -- recipes, food for thought, tips & techniques
Vine -- little direct-from-the-Market movies
Instagram -- off-the-cuff photos of fun Market sights

This Week at the Market: Shlagel Farms

We're big fans of sweet potatoes in all sorts of preparations -- from simply roasted with a bit of olive oil and rosemary, to mashed with plenty of orange zest and cinnamon, to sweet potato pie, to sweet potatoes and black beans with cilantro and lime in homemade corn tortillas -- sweet potatoes are amazingly versatile vegetables that pack a nutritional wallop. This time of year is great for finding all sorts of new recipes for these old friends -- visit us on Pinterest for a wide range and great inspiration!

This Saturday, visit Shlagel Farms at Cheverly Community Market and stock up on those wondrous sweet potatoes, as well as all of your fall cooking favorites. Eileen will have kale and collard greens, beets, turnips with greens, squash and zucchini, onions, red potatoes, green and red pappers, eggplant, acorn and butternut squash, mums, pumpkins, brown eggs, lima beans, and green beans.

This Week at the Market: Shlagel Farms

Mmmm...fall foods. Warm, nourishing stews and soups. Beautiful, fragrant braises and slow-cooked meals. Our stovetops and ovens kick into full gear, and the aromas of delicious cooking food fills our homes as the days get shorter and night falls just a little earlier. This Saturday, visit Shlagel Farms at Cheverly Community Market and stock up on terrific ingredients for the best meals of autumn: kale and collards, cabbage, green and red peppers, eggplant of all shapes and sizes, tomatoes, squash and zucchini, green beans, lima beans, brown eggs, apples, potatoes, pumpkins, mums, beets, onions, and winter squash. Your pantry will be full and you'll have amazing options to see you through these beautiful fall days! Need a little inspiration? Visit us on Pinterest for hundreds of recipes, plus tips, techniques and more!

Like Us? Share the Love on Pinterest!

We're always looking for new ways to reach a wider audience, so we're very excited about Pinterest, the social networking site that allows you to share your favorite places, things, and good ideas with a wide array of people. You may already be a member, or you may have only recently heard about this juggernaut -- it's one of the most exciting places on the web right now. If you support Cheverly Community Market, we hope you'll share the love by clicking on our Pin It icon to the right (or above) here on the blog, or on our website. Thanks!