Summer at Jean-Talon Market (Montreal Buzz blog-Tourisme Montreal)
Locals know that a summer stroll around Montreal’s markets is not only a chance to connect local farms to your table, it’s also a chance for us to check each other out in the long-awaited sunshine…
Though Marché Jean-Talon is Montreal’s go-to Farmer’s Market all year round, I always look forward to summer as the season when the market, like the city itself, fully busts into bloom. Certainly, producers who have been labouring in greenhouses to get ready to sell plantables and hanging-baskets of multicoloured floral tangles of joy are happy to see the warm sun in order to bring out their wares. But it’s also time to start buying—and cooking—the local bounty of seasonal fruits and vegetables and other delicacies from agricultural producers around Montreal who all gather in the hub of the Market to bust out the green.Read post
Posted: June 5th, 2011 under City, Food, Misc, Sid Lee/Tourisme Montreal, Travel.
Tags: 14 Arpents, agriculture, balcony farming, Casimir, fiddleheads, food, Jean-Talon Market, Montreal, rhubarb, Riopelle, Spring, Summer, tomatoes