Grower Beth Eccles of the Green Acres stand says it can be used in a sautes and soups or ground into lemon grass water for sauces and marinades. Creminis are brown mushrooms that, if left to mature, open up and become portobello . Cipallini onions are a sweet and flavorful Italian variety that's good raw. Sweet Spanish onions are a nice cooking variety. Nichols Farm also has red and white Vidalia onions, Sweet Sandwich onions, White Spanish onions, Meta Dor shallots and leeks to choose from as well.
Bosc pears are ripe when they turn from a brownish green to a light golden color.
Fruit Farm in South Haven, Michigan. They're the Cadillac of pears. Stanley plums are one of only a handful of varieties left at the market this season. This popular blue plum is perhaps better known when dried as prunes. There are boxes of freshly dug, bright pink new potatoes at many stands.