This recipe celebrates the pure, simple deliciousness of one of summer's finest gifts.

Nothing says 4th of July like a homemade cherry pie! Scholl's will have both sour and sweet cherries tomorrow, grab some sour for baking and fill a bowl with beautiful sweet cherries for your holiday centerpiece! It's a short season folks, so grab these beauties while you can. Scholl's will also have beef steak tomatoes, broccoli cauliflower the season's first string beans and wax beans and lots of other veggies too.

Salvaterra's has some big beautiful slicers this weekend in both red and yellow - perfect for BLTs and burgers!

You'll also find Lettuce mix, arugula, European Mesclun mix, green, red, and tuscan kale, collards, Swiss chard, cilantro, dill, parsley, red radishes, spring onions, scallions, Hakurei turnips, red beets, carrots, red and green leaf lettuce, fennel, mustard greens, broccoli, green cabbage, nappa cabbage, cherry tomatoes, green and yellow zucchini, cucumbers and those super sweet Walla Walla onions.

Get all your Holiday BBQ favorites at Phillips Farms - blueberries, raspberries, and maybe even some peaches (yep, the first peaches have arrived)! Other produce to check out this week include zucchini, cucumbers, garlic scapes, shelled peas, sugar snap peas, greenhouse tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, lettuce, kale, swiss chard, bok choy, fresh herbs and so much more.  

Summer Holiday Weekends call for a whole lot of grilling and crisp salads! Cabbage Throw Farm is loaded with salad greens including French Panisse, Butterhead, Romaine, and Spring Mix, along with crunchy salad fixings like cucumbers, fennel, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, and salad turnips, all perfect to shred into a slaw as well. Bok choy, green cabbage, fresh onions, large beets, green & yellow zucchini, little gem romaine are all perfect for grilling next to your Breakaway Farms burgers or Primordia Mushrooms. Other produce available includes escarole, broccoli, cauliflower, dandelion greens, scallions, fresh garlic, garlic scapes, kale, rainbow chard, spinach, parsley, dill, cilantro, basil and squash blossoms. 

Happy Holiday Weekend! We’ll bring lots of goodies to take to picnics (or not): Fresh Blueberry Pies, Star Spangled Strawberry Rhubarb Pies, Lemon Tarts, and Key Lime Pies for the dessert table. To take some of the cooking out of dinner time, we’ll also have fabulous Mile High Lamb Pies, Salmon Strudel, Quiches, and plenty of small treats to nibble as you wander the market. See you on Saturday!

Heading to a 4th of July cookout this weekend? How about instead of bringing the usual potato salad you treat them to a fresh local flower bouquet! Holy Cow Flower Farm will be featuring beautiful red, white and blue bouquets this Saturday. They'll include lovely white feverfew, little pops of blue bachelors buttons and a big red bee balm firework. They're the perfect gift for the host, or the perfect festive touch for your own home. Also featured this week are big beautiful snapdragons, the first of the zinnias, and a whole lot of sunflowers. It's going to be a colorful and cheery display at the Holy Cow Flower tent!

This weekend's red, white, & blue feature at Apple Ridge Farm:

Stay cool this weekend with some Roastwell Cold Brewed Coffee. Making your own cold brew is amazingly simple! See the recipe below.

Here are three picks for Best Cold Brew Coffees:

SUMATRA LINTONG- Deep earthy notes of spice and licorice. Naturally low acidity.

BALI BLUE MOON- From the Isle of Bali. Deeper chocolate notes makes this a favorite for flavoring up with a little chocolate syrup.

MOKA JAVA- A blend of dark Sumatra and light roast Ethiopia. You'll enjoy this slightly lighter but still robust brew all afternoon.

Roastwell Coffee Roasters has Sumatra Cold Brew & Nitro-infused Cold Brew available by the cup or bring your growler and take some home for the weekend!

Cold-brewed coffee is actually Super simple to make at home using a Mason jar and a sieve. You simply add water to coffee,

stir, cover it and leave it out on the counter overnight. A quick two-step filtering the next day (strain the grounds

through a sieve, and use a coffee filter to pick up silt), a dilution of the brew one-to-one with water, and you’re done.

Except for the time it sits on the kitchen counter, the whole process takes about five minutes.

Pre-order your coffee online and Roastwell will have it bagged, tagged & waiting for you at the market!

This week Zekraft is offering a bevy of salads to share with family and friends. From a refreshing Blackberry Chèvre Salad, Roasted Chicken Bleu Salad, Roasted Turkey with Blueberries and Brie, Thai Peanut Chicken, a Quinoa Apple Salad featuring Scholl’s apples and to spice things up a Southwestern Salmon Salad. For soups they're offering a Stone Fruit Gazpacho and a Roasted Cauliflower.

To round out the offerings, the dessert menu includes Strawberry Shortcake, Belgian chocolate Pot de Creme and the crowd favorite Banana Pudding that goes great with Zekraft's vegan Lavender or Vanilla Chia

And don’t forget to check out what they’r offering for home meal delivery. This week they’re celebrating the 4th of July with family meals that serve four people. You can choose between a New England Clam Bake or a Southern BBQ!

For anyone who appreciates Breakaway Farms very popular Black & Bleu sausage, they are celebrating July 4th by bringing you a brand new burger. Introducing the Red, White & Blue Burgers!

Red is represented with Breakaway’s grass fed ultimate burger mix of chuck, brisket, short rib & sirloin.

White is in the form of sautéed sweet Vidalia onions.

Blue comes from the copious amounts of Amish Bleu cheese in the mix. 50% more than what they use in their sausages!

The burgers are pre-seasoned with salt and pepper, so all you need to do is bring a pack of six to your family gathering and throw them on the grill.

Order ahead at breakawayfarms.net.

Celebrate the 4th with halloumi cheese on your grill and fresh ricotta in your dishes!  Nothing beats a grilled halloumi and watermelon salad.

Come by an d see Rob for feta, halloumi, chevre, curds, ricotta and yogurt this week.  Enjoy a fresh strawberry smoothie for an ice-cold market treat.

Looking for something with a little spice? Buffalo Chicken! 

How about something sweet to go with a side of ice cream? Blueberry Crumb! Need something easy for breakfast? Bacon Egg and Cheese! Mattie's has a strudel for any time of day or any occasion. Be sure to stop by Saturday and see what the Mattie's team has is store for 4th of July!

De Novo Creamery knows how to celebrate and this week's menu brings out the best of summer flavors!

Pints & Scoops: Pineapple Coconut, Strawberry Lime

Super Sized Ice Cream Sandwich: Captain America (Red, white, blue vanilla w/ a chocolate oat crust

Bubble Waffle Sundaes: Pina Colada (warm bubble waffle, pineapple coconut ice cream, rum caramel drizzle, whipped cream, glitter)

Strawberry Margarita (warm bubble waffle, strawberry lime ice cream, tequila strawberry drizzle, whipped cream, glitter

It's “Sassy Blue Dog” on tap this week! Fill your growler with this doggone delightful blueberry-sage kombucha.

Are you wondering what to do with your anxious pup this holiday weekend? Come check out Bella's Bistro for their all-natural Calming Hemp treats created for situations just like this. Whether it's fireworks, thunderstorms, or any loud noises, these treats will help calm your pup. For more severe cases, they also have Full Spectrum Organic CBD Oil that is formulated just for dogs. So not only they can relax, but so can you! Pre-order for these specific seasonal items is highly recommended at www.bellasbistroshop.com as there will be limited supplies. Venmo and credit cards accepted.

Teels Hill's soaps make great 4th of July hostess gifts and Susan is featuring some of her favorite red, white and blue soaps. Cinnabar is a blend of two cinnamons essential oils, cinnamons bark and cassia and sweetened with ylang ylang. Clarity soap (once called PMS Blues ) soap has clary sage essential oil which has relaxing calming effects. Summermint and Eucalyptus soaps are also refreshing this time of year.

Join us for free birthday cake and sing happy birthday to the market! Birthday ceremony starts at 10:00 am. Plus balloons the clown, free gifts, and a prize drawing!

Join us at the West Ward Market for our 13th annual Zucchini 500 race - it's fast food at its best!

FREE ADMISSION IN HONOR OF OUR 270TH BIRTHDAY.