| Farmers' Market: Muscadines, cushaws on sale |
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By: TMP Reports
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Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:13 am
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Plump muscadines were on sale Tuesday for $4 a box at the Farmers' Market under the shed at Cannonsburgh on Front Street which opens each Tuesday and Friday from 6-11 a.m.
Also, fresh pears were selling for 75 cents a pound.
Homegrown Tennessee mushrooms will be on sale Friday. One shopper said she craved the fresh mushrooms.
Honey from Keith Elrod’s hives in Rockvale were available for $6 and $11.
Many farmers still had heirloom tomatoes with the yellow cherry tomatoes on sale for $2 a basket and original red zebra and orange strawberry tomatoes for $2 a pound. Other heirloom tomatoes selling for $4 a pound earlier were on sale at $2.50 a pound.
The fall harvest brought turnip greens at $1.25 a pound or $12 a bushel, small pumpkins two for $1 and three for $1 and large pumpkins for $5. Cushaws, a green striped potato pumpkin, sold for $5 each. The cushaws are mostly used for fall decorations rather than eating.
Today's prices included:
$1 a pound to $3 a basket — sweet potatoes
$1 each — spaghetti squash
$1 for two — cream of the crop acorn squash
$1-$3/tray-small potatoes
$2/tray - okra
$1/tray - yellow squash
$1/pound — zucchini
$2 – watermelons
$3-$10 – pumpkins, depending on size
$3/tray — beans and peas
$4 to $7 a basket — Romes, tart Rhode Island Greening and red and yellow delicious apples
$2 – Cantaloupes
$5 per quart — blueberries
$7 for one, $12 for two or $25 for five — Potted Mums.
$3/gallon — Mums
$4/pot — lettuce
$3 harvested from pot — lettuce
$1 a tray — Eggplants
$1 a tray — Sweet banana peppers
$5-$6 — One-half pints of Muscadine grape jelly, white grape jelly, organic pear preserves and pear honey.
$6 — Jars of dried green, yellow and red peppers used in soups
$6 — Smoked peppers
$4 — sourdough bread
$3 — Cornbread
$3 — Sundrop cake
$1 each — Brownies made with Ghiradelli chocolate
$1/slice — Lemon bars, chess squares, brownies
$7 — Pecan, chess and brown sugar pies
$2 – Fried pies, blackberry, peach, apple, chocolate, pecan and sugarfree apple
$4 — sourdough, cinnamon and banana breads
$8 — Sundrop, peanut butter and pound cakes
$1 per bag — brownies, chocolate chip cookies, chess squares and oatmeal cake
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