The delightful surprise last week, in an early June visit to the Greenpoint Greenmarket, was big bunches of fresh, fragrant chamomile at the booth for Garden of Eve Farms.  I brought one home and clipped it to the side of my fridge. It’ll hang it there until it dries, and then I’ll peel off the leaves and flowers for tea. Osczepinski Farms had chamomile as well, and it was looking abundant enough that you’ll hopefully still find some on the shelves in the upcoming weeks.

Osczepinski Farms was also full of  surprises last week. Theirs is the first booth you see as you approach the market from the eastern, Lorimer street side, and as I did so my eye was practically assaulted by a deep red blaze of piled up bunches of radishes. They were nearly big as apples. They didn’t have quite as much spiciness as the multicolored radishes I’d gotten a couple of weeks ago from Fishkill Farms in the Boro Hall market, but they were certainly crisp and delicious. Osczepinski’s booth has been bursting at the seams in recent weeks. Alongside the radishes (and chamomile) they had beautiful red and white spring onions, lettuces & spinach, cut cilantro, parsley, basil, and rhubarb. I was told they’d also had tiny beets earlier in the day, but by the time of my late-morning visit they were already sold out.

Other finds: a firm, dry feta cheese from Consider Bardwell. And in conversation with Kate from Cayuga I got an update on their plan to bring flour to the market: they’re waiting on approval from CENYC (the flour comes from a partnership with another farm, not solely from Cayuga, so the partnership needs to be approved before it can sell in NYC Greenmarkets). I didn’t see any strawberries, but I’m expecting they’ll be plenty tomorrow.

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