- Stephens Field
- Farmers
- Plants and Flowers
- Bakers and Food Crafters
- Specialty Products
- Crafters
- Earth Based Crafters
- Courthouse Green
- Farmers
- Plants and Flowers
- Bakers and Food Crafters
- Earth Based Crafters
- Featured Members
- Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm
- Jenny's Bread
Market Members
Participating farmers and non-farm members must adhere to a variety of guidelines established to ensure all local and state health and safety guidelines are met and that produce and baked goods are locally grown and homemade. Organic practices are encouraged for all growers and all fruits and vegetables must be Massachusetts grown.
Stephens Field - Farmers |
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Cape Cod Worm Farm |
Established in 1974 Cape Cod Worm Farm sells organic fertilizer from fully composted worm "castings". We also sell soil tilling worms to add to your garden or compost pile or bin. |
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Costa Farm |
A variety of seasonal vegetables. |
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Freitas Farm |
A variety of seasonal vegetables, fruits and flowers. |
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Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm | Certified organic, growing a variety of produce on 3 acres, pastured livestock and poultry on2 acres to provided fresh local meats and eggs. CSA shares are available. |
Stillman’s Farm | Growing and offering a variety of fruits and vegetables including blueberries, strawberries, apples, melons, peaches and all the traditional new England growing vegetables. |
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Web of Life Organic Farm |
A family farm offering certified organic seedlings, produce, poultry and eggs, as well as quality hand made products. Items will include honey, lip balm, candles as well as hot sauces, salsa etc. |
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Eve’s Garden |
Perennials, vegetable, herb and flower seedlings |
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A Budding Enterprise |
Beautiful Cut Flowers…. |
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Nash Nursery |
Nash nursery is owned and operated by Mike and Leah Nash. We specialize in proven winners, annuals, perennials, vegetable seedlings, shrubs and fall mums. We can help you design your small containers, window boxes or small gardens. We have many unique one of a kind plantings. Personalized service is our specialty. |
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Stephens Field - Bakers and Food Crafters |
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Artisan Kitchen |
The Artisan Kitchen is a small bakery. Although wholesome, scratch-made delicious baked goods have always been our focus, we are also proud to support our community of local growers using in-season fruits, vegetables, eggs and grains in our baked goods. |
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Blue Blinds Bakery |
Fresh, seasonal fruit pies, as well as a variety of breads and baked goods. |
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Jenny's Bread |
Handmade bread using King Arthur and Hodgson Mills flours, organic oats, hormone free milk, Cabot butter and expeller expressed canola oil. Attending Market on the following Summer dates: June 19 & 26, July 21 & 28, (possibly) August 21 & 28. |
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The Shepherd’s Gate |
Providing a variety of goat milk products in 12 types of Chevre, feta and mozzarella, and over 30 gelato flavors. |
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Martha's Stone Soup / Side Dish |
Freshly prepared healthy side dishes and prepared meals using local and organic products. |
Walters Specialty Foods |
Sauces and rubs with a Caribbean flair, unique flavors of jams, jellies & chutneys. |
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Earth Sisters |
All natural soaps, candles, bath salts & oils, lip balm as well as chemical free herbs, plants and seedlings. |
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Fiddlehead Farm |
Eggs and tye dye clothing for children. |
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Rainwater Falls |
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Stephens Field - Crafters |
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Chain Saw Wood Carvings |
Animals and images of all shapes and sizes cut from local resources. Custom designs and specialty signs available upon request. Attending on the following Market Dates: July 17; August 7 and 21; September 4 and 18; October 2, 16 and 30. |
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Stephens Field - Earth Based Crafters |
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Blue Heron Arts |
Blue Heron Arts sells handmade pottery and jewelry made from stones, pearls, wood and clay. Handmade items also include wool hats and scarves in the fall, and fresh eggs when available. |
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Courthouse Green - Farmers |
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C.N. Smith Farm Inc |
Family owned for over 80 years, fruits, vegetables and green house plants |
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Silverbrook Farm |
A 30 year old Quaker Farm growing fruits, vegetables organically (not certified.) In addition to a variety of fruits and vegetables Silverbrook makes home baked pies, jams and jellies from seasonal fruits, as well as brings local honey and eggs. |
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Courthouse Green - Plants and Flowers |
Eve’s Garden |
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Courthouse Green - Bakers and Food Crafters |
Cornerstone Cafe |
Baked treats including tea breads, muffins and sweets using local ingredients. |
Chris’s Gourmet Treats |
Artisanal Breads and Baked goods, hand crafted from local produce and organic ingredients, always fresh and made especially for you. |
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Fishwife |
Live, local very fresh Lobsters that were harvested in the ocean outside of Marshfield. |
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Martha's Stone Soup / Side Dish |
Freshly prepared healthy side dishes and prepared meals using local and organic products. |
Earth Based Crafters |
Summer House Natural Soaps of Cape Cod |
Located in a 200 year old barn in Barnstable Village on Cape Cod, Summer House Natural Soaps produces fine artisan soap and bodycare products inspired by the sun and sea that surround us on Cape Cod. |
Featured Members
Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm
Dave Purpura of Plato’s Harvest Organic Farm in Middleboro is a farmer with an attitude. His attitude is, “do what you like, like what you do and always try something new.” His attitude is paying dividends for his 60 CSA members as well as to the many folks who shop at the farmers’ market who want to feed their families nutritious, field fresh and organically grown vegetables and herbs.
In fact, Dave grows some of the most beautiful vegetables to be found at the Thursday market. His table offers a rainbow of choices each week: deep purple eggplant, bright green zucchini, sun gold tomatoes, rosy red radishes and a round variety of lemon yellow summer squash. His garlic is plump and firm, swiss chard bright and crisp and his tomatoes are rich and red. The fragrant Italian basil , lemon basil, purple opal basil and large lettuce leaf basil are all candidates to pair with the tomatoes as they begin to roll in from the vine. Dave is proud too of his zinnias and gladiolas which stand tall and bright in bouquets or by the stem.
The inspiration for Plato’s Harvest came from Dave’s two goats, Einstein and Plato, who can be heard relentlessly critiquing farm operations every time they are delivered new piles of weeds collected from between the crop rows. For a midday snack they would prefer the spent pea vines to the tough pigweed if you please. The goats do inspire Dave to keep weeding which he considers one of the more challenging tasks at the farm and also one of the most rewarding because in just short order you can see the results of your efforts.
When Farmer Dave was asked recently by a four year old CSA member what he does all day, he responded “I weed and feed, that’s about it.” Indeed Dave has a lot of mouths to feed in addition to the 60 families who signed on in spring for a share of each week’s harvest, including: 60 some odd chickens, 20 turkeys, 7 pigs, 5 lambs, 3 cows and of course Plato and Einstein, the two goats.
Whatever is left over he shares with his new wife Sasha and takes the rest to the Plymouth Farmers’ Market on Thursday’s and to the Harvard Square Farmers’ Market on Tuesday’s.
You can find Dave underneath his signature hat each week arranging gladiolas, piling up tomatoes and weighing garlic, onions and potatoes for happy customers. He may even offer a recipe or two if asked such as this one he rattled off recently: Chop up three baby cabbages after cleaning, sauté in a hot pan of olive oil till beginning to brown, sprinkle with a generous helping of chopped garlic and a grind of salt and pepper, cover the pan, turn off heat and let sit as you prepare the rest of the meal. The cabbage will have caramelized for a sweet and savory side dish.
Remember, Dave appreciates questions and conversation too. Ask him what it means to grow organically and what it involves, ask him what he thinks about rabbits (you may see a flash of Mr. McGregor when he answers.) After a long week with Plato and Einstein as his primary companions, he looks forward to all the friendly and hungry people who want to see what’s fresh from the field on market day. So stop by and say hi, you’ll be gad you did.
Thank you to Plato’s Harvest for all of your hard work and good food!
To reach the farm:
David Purpura
(508) 315-9429
platosharvest@yahoo.com
Jenny's Bread
On market days, Jen Healy wakes up early. Her two children get up with her.
Together they begin measuring, sifting and kneading the bread and rolls that has made Healy famous at the Plymouth Farmers’ Market.
People ask after her, according to Market Manager Barbara Anglin, because Healy doesn’t always attend the market. Her children have soccer practice after all.
But Healy’s double chocolate buns are legendary. The day she talked to a reporter, several people came up to ask her about them – the last one was in the reporter’s pocket.
“I use unsweetened cocoa in the buns,” Healy told her customers. “I don’t use butter or oil, and they’re surprisingly light and not too sweet.”
Healy gets her recipes from everywhere and plays with them until they suit her. With the chocolate buns, Healy thought there was something wrong with them the first time she made them. Then she realized what was wrong. “There was no vanilla in them,” she said. “How can you have chocolate without vanilla?”
On market days, Healy and her two children wake up at 4 a.m. to begin the process. All of the breads they make are baked fresh that day, and if the loafs vary from day to day, the more homemade they look and smell.
The varieties change over the weeks. Sometimes Healy will have cornbread made from organic cornmeal, milled at the Jenney Grist Mill on Town Brook; other times she’ll have anadama bread, a dark sweet bread made from the same cornmeal and molasses.
Either way, Healy says, “It’s all about the butter.”
“Most cornbread recipes call for shortening, but I’d rather use less of the real thing than that stuff,” she said.
If she decides not to make anadama bread, Healy might make oatmeal bread, or an oatmeal Irish soda bread that tastes like it’s loaded with butter, but isn’t. “It the ugliest loaf you ever saw, but it tastes great.”
