So ubiquitous this time of year, it’s hard to imagine that only 5% of all the cranberries harvested in the United States are sold as fresh fruit. The remaining 95% go into drinks, sauces and dried cranberries.
FALL CRANBERRIES
PUMPKINS
From Cinderella’s coach to Peter the Pumpkin Eater, to the Headless Horseman, Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin, the Smashing Pumpkins, and of course, Halloween, the pumpkin is one of our most recognizable seasonal symbols, synonymous with autumn.
PEARS
Even though there are over 3,000 varieties of pears grown worldwide, less than a dozen types are known and cultivated commercially in the US. Pear season begins just before the autumnal equinox and, for some varieties, lasts into early spring.
APPLES
Our favorite harbinger of autumn has to be apples. While others look at their calendars, here at Union Market, we look to our growers and wait with impatience for the NY State Apple season to begin.
CABBAGE FAMILY
Yes, it’s true: they’re all cabbages. Not just the namesake veggies. Broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, brussles sprouts, kohlrabi... they’re all members of the brassica oleracea species, to be precise, descendants of the wild cabbage native to the salty shores of Western Europe.
WILD SEAFOOD
So much anticipation comes with the arrival of wild salmon in the spring that sometimes we lose track of the other seasonal splendors the sea has to offer. Autumn is a particularly abundant time for local, regional and Atlantic seafood in general.
