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By stacey, October 3, 2010 10:55 pm

I hope you have a chance to stop in the market sometime soon! Fall is filling every room with beautiful color – you can’t help but feel inspired by the season. Inside we have gourds and pumpkins decorating every display, accented with bittersweet and festive Autumn gifts and decor.  Take a stroll through the side door, out into the mum area and explore our new pumpkin display. We had a lot of fun piling over two hundred pumpkins onto crates and straw bales. There are so many unique colors and textures! Bumpy red, grey, tan, stripy green, and warty orange. And my favorite – white with orange and red stripes. You can also purchase beautiful mums, gourds, indian corn, straw bales and cornstalk bundles at the market - everything you need for your own seasonal displays.

Along with the usual activities of Autumn  (it’s harvest time! apples everywhere!) we’ve been busy behind the scenes, planning a big celebration to commemorate 40 years of business here at Kirby’s. We just added a new page about the festival to the website. Check it out! Harvest Weekend will be happening on October 23rd and 24th 11am-5pm. There are so many activities to try (almost all of them free!). And we hope you can join us on Sunday night for a special unveiling and anniversary cake. We’re looking forward to sharing our 40th Anniversary Party with all of our customers that have made the last 40 years possible!

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By stacey, June 25, 2010 2:39 am

Almost everything is early this year so we have to keep you informed! That warm weather early this Spring gave everything a little bit of a head start.

• Cherries: in the market since 6/20, we’ll have sweet cherries for several weeks yet. Sour cherries will be here before July, we hope. A little later and with a shorter season then sweet, you definitely want to catch some before they’re gone. We like to eat them fresh, make some into a cobbler and of course… cherry pie!

• Strawberries: I picked a few quarts this afternoon and there are plenty of big beautiful berries out there.  If you’re not interested in picking your own, we have plenty in the market already picked.

• Lettuce: fresh Kirbygrown lettuce is so tender and crisp. (I have been tempted to eat an entire head for lunch on more then one occasion, dressed simply in a cider vinagrette). Red leaf, green leaf and buttercruch!

• Peas: Sweet and Edible Pod are here at the moment. Our second planting is just getting started.

• Coming soon: zucchini, summer squash, early peaches.

As always, call ahead if you’re coming for a specific item! You never know when we might sell out of something and we don’t want anyone to be disappointed. Feel free to place an order by phone or in person ahead of time and if it’s in the field we’ll have it ready to go at any time, on any day.