Mrs. Peaches will be back this week with her fabulous Alabama peaches.  Stop by and say hello and pick up a bag of the sweetest things you ever tasted.

the perfect peach

Perfectly ripe peaches will feel heavy for their size, yield slightly to gentle pressure and emit a sweet, heady perfume. Avoid any fruit tinged with green, as it won’t ripen. Read-to-eat peaches last three to five days refrigerated; firmer ones will soften when kept in a brown paper bag on the counter for up to three days.

We’d love to hear what your favorite peach recipe is. Please share! Maybe you prefer to just stand over the kitchen sink and eat them plain, with the juice running down your forearms. That’s a good peach!

The season for blue berries is coming to an end and Blue Tara Farms has brought us some of the best blue berries we have ever had. We sure are going to miss having them here each week.

This Thursday, August 7th, will be there last week this year for us at the market. So come on buy and give’em a visit and pick up some of those great blue berries for the freezer to get you buy till they make there return next year.

The former Hub City Farmers’ Market will return to downtown Hattiesburg today as the Pine Belt Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market.

The market will be open at 4 p.m. every Thursday at Town Square Park and will feature vendors, musicians, arts and crafts, and farmers. It is open to all vendors who will be selling their produce.

The market will host an ‘open mic, picking-party, jam session’ open to all musicians. The Mayhem String Band from Oxford will perform today.

“This is an evolution, extending what’s been in place,” said Timothy Rehner, School of Social Work assistant director and professor. “It’s always our hope, with any project, that it will grow and gain enough momentum to run on its own.”

“It will feature a wide variety of fresh produce and prepared foods, arts, crafts and any other thing a person believes other people would like to buy,” Cagle said. “The name change reflects this new approach to the market, a renewed commitment to community building in general and Hattiesburg’s role as the center of the Pine Belt in cultural and economic terms.”