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From Market to Meal: All About Summer Squash

The weather is perfect for grilling fresh summer vegetables. Summer squash tops the list of easy-to-prepare and good-for-you summer fare. Grilled, sautéed, or baked, it’s all good! A very prolific vegetable, summer squash is a soft-shelled squash with thin edible skins and edible seeds, compared to the hard-shelled winter squash with inedible skin. Available at your farmers’ market now through September, squash is very low in calories, high in vitamins and fiber. Round, long, crooked neck...

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Honoring the Contributions of Hispanic American Farmers to California’s Agriculture

As we enter Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15-Oct.15), we would like to acknowledge and pay tribute to the contributions that the Hispanic community has made to California’s agricultural sector and...

Farmers’ Market Week – A Time to Celebrate Certified Farmers’ Markets

We’re celebrating certified farmers’ markets during National Farmers’ Market Week (August 7 thru 13). In fact, we’re celebrating for the whole month of August! PCFMA operates only “certified” markets...

Summer Melons – Certified Delicious!

You’ve just found a new variety of melon at your farmers’ market, not the usual watermelon or cantaloupe, but a lovely yellow melon with rippled rind. Or there’s one that’s small, oval, and green with...

Les Portello Steps Down as PCFMA Board Member

Long-Time PCFMA Board Member Les Portello Steps Down

Les Portello, a founding member and former President of the Board PCFMA Board of Directors, has stepped down from the PCFMA Board of Directors to join PCFMA’s Advisory Committee as an Emeritus...