Cambridgeport Farmers Market

Went a few times and the prices seemed a bit high and the quality was pretty poor. There are typically only half a dozen vendors and the selection is redundant/​sparse.
I’d suggest heading over to the Harvard Square Farmers Market on Sunday as opposed to this one.

In terms of farmer’s markets, this is one of my favorite. It’s tucked in the Morse School parking lot and four or five produce vendors share this space, plus a few specialty vendors like Hi Rise bakery and another one that makes desserts. It’s conveniently open on Saturdays from 10 – 2 sometime late spring through October. And … it’s right down the street from me.
Grateful Farm and Stillmans are two of the vendors. There is another that sells unique greens (lemongrass, enormous green onions, pea tendrils) and even another that seems to have lots of tomatoes and pumpkins (this time of year).
Stillman’s is wonderful because they offer lamb, beef, and pork products, which can be ordered ahead of time to ensure that they will have the item available. I often buy the thick pork chops because they always taste delicious. These are purchased frozen in vacuum sealed plastic, but by the time I want to cook dinner that night, they are thawed out perfectly.
For greens, pork chops, beautiful heirlooms, a funky kohlrabi root, some peppers, onions, tomatillos, and a fresh baked baguette, some parsley, and carrots, the CASH ONLY price tag comes to $ 30.
All in all, you can come in early and grab all the fixings you need for a lovely (romanticize with wildflowers) dinner for two to ten.
I made a delicious bruschetta-​ish snack lunch thing with fresh heirloom tomatoes, roasted tomatillos, shallots, red onion, and garlic to stack on a baguette slathered with a feta/​EVOO spread, and later for dinner, the pork chop cooked on a cast iron pan with balsamic reduction/​shallots, and fresh mixed green (prewashed!) salad with a raspberry balsamic dressing, blue cheese, and toasted almonds. Mmmm…

I saw on
that they are open until ¹¹⁄₂₈ so I went on ¹¹⁄₇ and there was no one there. The sign in front says June-​October. BUMMER!

There is nothing sweeter than going to this Farmers’ Market, picking out some perfectly ripe tomatoes from Kimball Farms and a fresh baked Concord Loaf from Hi-​Rise and heading back to my house and making the most delicious tomato mayo sandwiches ever!
This Market has a great location (across from Trader Joes) and a great day (Saturday). It’s never too crowded but there is often a healthy crowd there. There is no better, or fresher way to get seasonal fruits and vegetables short of picking them yourself.
The Market runs from June-​November, if you don’t want to battle crowds at the Monday Market in Central this is a great alternative.

I am a huge fan of farmer’s markets. What’s not to love, really? You wander about looking at beautiful things, grown nearby, perhaps you chat with a farmer or two, run into some friends, laugh about nothing and put money directly into the hands of the people who work to help you to live a healthier life. I am sad when they close, and I count the days til they open, and I try to get to them as often as possibly when they are.
This one is relatively new. It is a member of the federation, and so is very well set up. There are fewer stalls than at some of the bigger, and more established markets, and I usually wander over to the larger market in Union Square on Saturdays, but today I strolled away from Somerville, down Magazine, because I had heard from a little bird that there was a stall selling grass fed meat. Not beef, because River Rock have that very well covered, and I am very loyal to them, but chicken, pork and lamb. And so there is– Stillman Turkey Farm! I bought a 6lb chicken for my parents, who reported that it was splendid, and I have a couple of lamb chops stashed in the back of my fridge, thawing for my dinner tomorrow.
The same farm also had a beautiful selection of peas (sugar snap, English shelling…) and beets. Hooray for Stillman!
Good old Kimball are there too, with the last of the scapes and green garlic and the first of the tomatoes, and Hi Rise with their lovely breads.
So, the Cambridgeport may be small, but they are absolutely well enough stocked to keep me out of Whole Foods. What more could you want from a farmers’ market?