What's in Season at the Santa Monica Farmers Market

Green skinned sapotes, also known as custard apple, and wrinkly purple passion fruit are found at Coleman Farm.  Sapotes soften and turn yellow, then the skin can be rubbed off and the sweet soft fruit can barely hold its shape while eaten.  Delicious, delicate and rare.  Bumpy passion fruit is full of crunchy seeds and yellow-orange fleshy fibers.  Puree for drinks or eat with a spoon.  Wednesday, Saturday Santa Monica

Frisee and radicchio, bitter greens also found at Coleman Farm go great with sweet persimmons, salty cheese, almonds, walnuts and pecans in salad.

Chestnuts are very scarce this year.  Nicholas Farm has them for about 2 more weeks at $8 per pound.  Pierce with a knife and roast them in the oven or over the fire and eat them out of the shell, or use them in stuffing.  Wednesday, Pico Santa Monica, Sunday Beverly Hills.
 

Savoy cabbage from Flora Bella is sweeter than regular cabbage and the huge outer leaves can be used for wraps.  Wednesday, Saturday Santa Monica; Sunday Hollywood

Bucheret goat cheese from Redwood Hill, a farmstead goat cheese maker from Sebastopol.  Redwood Hill is a small family owned farm that produces prize winning goat cheeses including Camelia, Crottin, Cheddar, Raw Feta and 4 kinds of Chevre.  Wednesday Santa Monica; also Whole Foods, Co-Opportunity and other Health Food Stores.

Walter Hole Avocados from JJ’s Lone Daughter Ranch.  These are a rare winter variety similar to the Mexicola, which is primarily a root stock avocado.  The thin skin is edible.  Wednesday, Saturday Santa Monica; Sunday Hollywood