Local eaters are lucky this year; lovely fall weather has yielded a bounty of still-fresh and delicious local crops,  harvested each week by our farmers.  This Sunday, December 4, farmers at the Long Season Winter Farmers’ Market will have apples, onions, garlic, leeks, winter squash, potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, kohlrabi, and fresh greens.  Clearview Farm will bring broccoli raab, arugula, fresh eggs, mustard greens, mizuna, tat soi, radishes, rutabaga, scallions, leeks, and turnips.  Bolton Farms will have lettuce mix, basil, microgreens, parsley, arugula, watercress, and pea shoots.  Whitney Farms will have certified-organic, grass-fed standing rib roasts for holiday feasts.  Lots of local gifts will be available too, including Bloomfield Honey’s beeswax pillar candles and gift packs such as their popular “Milk and Honey” shaving soap paired with boar’s hair shaving brushes.  JonJohn’s Bakery is bringing holiday gift bags for kids to give to their teachers, plus carrot cakes, red velvet cakes, beyond chocolate cakes, peanut butter balls, chocolate dipped cookies, and apple and sweet potato pies.  You’ll also find dairy products including milk, yogurt, and cheese, artisanal breads and pastries, fresh and dried pasta, jams and jellies, baking mixes, alpaca yarn, and much more.  Jefferson Svengsouk will join the market to play Native American flute music.

The Long Season Winter Farmers’ Market is a collaboration between the Brighton and South Wedge Farmers’ Markets, sponsored by the Town of Brighton and the South Wedge Planning Committee.  The market is held Sunday afternoons, 1 to 4 pm, through December 18.  It meets in Brighton’s Brookside Recreation Center, 220 Idlewood Road, with a second entrance off  S. Winton, just south of the Westfall/S. Winton intersection.  See www.swfarmersmarket.org or “like” the South Wedge Farmers’ Market Facebook page.