Edible Paradise celebrates the year-round abundance of the highest quality, freshest food grown on the Central Coast by our family farmers at the Monterey Bay Certified Farmers Markets. If you enjoy preparing and eating locally grown food, this blog is for you!
🍁 Special Thanksgiving Market Hours 🍁
For your last minute Thanksgiving shopping, the Monterey Farmers Market at Del Monte Shopping Center will be open Wednesday, November 26, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. — the perfect time to pick up the freshest local produce, flowers, baked goods, and specialty foods for your Thanksgiving table.
➡️ Please note: the market will be closed on Friday, November 28 to allow our hardworking farmers and food artisans to enjoy the holiday with their families.
The Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College will be open as usual on Saturday, November 29, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at the Monterey Bay Certified Farmers Markets! 🧡
Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery is here at the Aptos Farmers Market today!
If you love real goat cheese—the kind that’s hand-crafted, gently aged, and full of bright, clean flavor—you’re in for a treat.
Rocky Oaks is the Central Valley’s original maker of unique, artisanal goat cheeses. Every batch is crafted with care, from pasture to creamery, and you can taste that passion in every bite.
Stop by their booth this morning at the Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College and discover your new goat favorite cheese—smooth chèvre or one of their limited-batch specialties.
Bring home something truly special for your holiday table (or, you know… for nibbling in the car on the way home 😅).
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If you’re stocking up for the holiday, swing by Prevedelli Farm at the Monterey Farmers Market today — their apple selection is incredible right now. Juicy, crisp, full of flavor… truly some of the best you’ll find.
Apples always find their way onto our Thanksgiving menu — tucked into stuffing, served as apple butter alongside warm dinner rolls, and of course baked into those cozy apple pies.
And here’s a little tip from Geri herself: Use a mix of different apple varieties in your pie filling for the best texture and the most balanced flavor. It makes all the difference.
Our companion website, Edible Paradise, has many incredible apple recipes—link is in the bio. (Shhhh….🤫….the winning recipes for the top blue ribbon apple pies are there too!)
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With the holidays around the corner and friends and family popping in, it’s always a lifesaver to have a few artisan cheeses on hand. If you’re at the Monterey Farmers Market today, make sure to stop by Rocky Oaks Goat Creamery — their selection is so good right now.
One standout: Heritage Gouda.
This gorgeous cheese is hand-dipped and wax-aged, made from their own farmstead goat milk and aged six months for that mild, creamy flavor we all love. It slices beautifully, shreds like a dream, and melts into perfection — truly one of the most versatile cheeses you can put on a board.
Pick some up for easy entertaining, holiday snacking, or gifting to the cheese lovers in your life.
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✨ Golden Raisins at the Market Today! ✨
Swing by Schletewitz Family Farm at the Monterey Farmers Market — they’ve brought bags of their plump, juicy golden raisins, and they are a total treat.
These aren’t your average store-bought raisins. These are vine ripened, sun-dried, full-flavored berries with a soft jammy bite and natural sweetness that makes everything taste better. They’re incredible in baked goods (think cinnamon-raisin bread or oatmeal cookies), delicious tossed into a green salad, and honestly… they’re perfect eaten by the handful.
The Monterey Farmers Market is open until noon—hope to see you soon!
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Pink Radicchio at the market today!
Find these stunning specialty pastel pink heads from Spade & Plow Organics at the Monterey Farmers Market today — they’re impossible to miss.
Pink radicchio isn’t just beautiful (though, wow!). It’s naturally milder and more delicate than traditional red radicchio, with a soft bitterness that plays so nicely with bright flavors. The leaves are crisp, tender, and almost floral — perfect for winter salads that feel fresh and elegant.
Try it simply tossed with a lemony vinaigrette, a splash of good olive oil, and a pinch of sea salt. Add shaved fennel, citrus segments, or toasted walnuts if you want to get fancy.
Come by the Monterey Farmers Market at the Del Monte Shopping Center. It’s bright and sunny—a perfect day to do some early Thanksgiving shopping!
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If you’ve seen the beautiful dressings, miso, and amazake products at the Aptos Farmers Market, you’ve met Hakouya — handcrafted fermented foods made by Masumi Diaz.
Masumi grew up in Japan learning traditional fermentation from her grandmothers, and today she and her son make small-batch miso, soy sauce koji, amazake, and miso dressing right here in Watsonville.
Her products are unpasteurized, probiotic-rich, deeply flavorful — and so easy to use in everyday cooking.
Customer favorites:
• Miso Dressing
• Quick Miso Soup
• White, Red, Barley & Chickpea Miso
• Umami Soy Sauce
• Salt Koji
• Amazake (Ginger, Matcha, Banana + more)
Find Hakouya every Saturday at the Aptos Farmers Market. Stop by, visit with Masumi about the health benefits, and bring home something delicious.
#Hakouya #AptosFarmersMarket #EatLocal #Umami #FermentedFoods #SupportLocalMakers #probiotics
Persimmons have arrived at Spade & Plow Organics!
If you’ve ever wondered which persimmon to grab (or what to actually do with them), here’s the quick farmers-market cheat sheet:
✨Fuyu Persimmons (the squat, tomato-shaped ones)
These are the crunchy, eat-them-like-an-apple persimmons. Slice them into salads, cheese boards, lunchboxes — they’re sweet, mild, and lovely while still firm.
✨Hachiya Persimmons (the tall, acorn-shaped ones)
These need to be very soft — like a water balloon — before you eat them. Once they’re fully ripe, the inside becomes silky and sweet, perfect for baking, puddings, breads, cookies, or spooning straight from the skin.
Swing by Spade & Plow this week and stock up while the season lasts. By the way, be sure to check out our persimmon recipes @edible_paradise_mbcfm.
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✨ New from MIF Seafood! ✨
Just in time for the holidays — a delicious wild-caught smoked salmon spread! Perfect for effortless appetizers, festive brunch boards, or a quick snack with good bread or crackers.
While you’re there, don’t miss their premium frozen wild-caught Alaskan salmon fillets and rich, smoky salmon — customer favorites all year long.
Find MIF Seafood at the Monterey Farmers Market at Del Monte Shopping Center!
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Good morning from the Monterey Farmers Market at the Del Monte Shopping Center! It’s a bit damp and overcast today, but it’s not raining. Come out and get some fresh air and see what the farmers have brought to the market.
First market find of the day: heirloom conehead cabbage at the Borba Family Farms booth. This old-time variety is naturally tender, with a sweeter flavor than the familiar round cabbage. Perfect for fall salads, quick sautés, or gently braised until silky.
The market is open until noon—see you there!
#montereyfarmersmarket #delmonteshoppingcenter #borbafarms #borbafamilyfarms #coneheadcabbage #seasonal
🍁 Thanksgiving Market Hours 🍁
For your holiday shopping convenience, the Monterey Farmers Market at Del Monte Shopping Center will be open Wednesday, November 26, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. — the perfect time to pick up the freshest local produce, flowers, baked goods, and specialty foods for your Thanksgiving table.
Please note: the market will be closed on Friday, November 28 to allow our hardworking farmers and food artisans to enjoy the holiday with their families.
The Aptos Farmers Market at Cabrillo College will be open as usual on Saturday, November 29, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Stock up early and make your holiday meal shine with the bounty of our markets!
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Meet Sylvia and Joey from Manzanita Manor Organics!
Their renowned dry-farmed walnuts are a true taste of the Central Coast—rich, flavorful, and sustainably grown.
Stop by their booth for a delicious selection of raw walnuts, sprouted walnuts, chocolate-covered walnuts, walnut meal, walnut butter, and cold-pressed walnut oil — all made with care right here in California.
It’s a beautiful morning at the Aptos Farmers Market. Come meet your friends and enjoy this glorious fall morning! The market is open until noon. 🍁
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#baking #holidaybaking
