A report from Laruen, the Greenpoint Greenmarket market manager on what you’ll find this weekend. Stop by McCarren Park tomorrow (Corner of Bedford and Lorimer) and check it out!

The 2nd annual “Farmer Olympics!” Potato sack races, watermelon seed spitting contest, and tomato target throwing contest. Fun for all ages!

Cayuga Organics has polenta, cracked wheat cereal, whole spelt flour, and whole cornmeal flour.

Red Jacket has donut peaches, plums and apricots

Suka Di also has apricots

Garden of Eve has great organic sungold tomatoes

S&SO has peppers!

Aracdian pastures has rabbits (you can also be special-order rabbits if they’re out)

Cranberry hall has eggplant — american and japanese

Consider Bardwell won 3rd place in the “best in show” category for the Rupert cheese a couple of weeks ago at the National Cheese Society national awards show. Over 1300 cheeses were in the running and Bardwell’s Rupert, an aged raw cow’s milk, took 3rd. The Pawlet, raw cow milk aged 6mth, received best in it’s category. Both will be for sale at the market — award winning cheese in Greenpoint!

Textile recycling is back and here to stay. Items accepted = clothes, linens, belts, bags, shoes, etc. All clean and dry, of course.

I got behind with posting these updates that Lauren so kindly sends me. Here are a couple of things I missed: Last weekend Bob McClure of McClure Pickles held a pickle-making demo; and the Brooklyn Rhythm Masters were on hand to provide some music. Be sure to stop by the market — there’s always something happening!

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