Lewes in Bloom and Hattie's Garden to demonstrate Sept. 15 at Historic Lewes Farmers Market

The Historic Lewes Farmers Market will run from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Lewes Historical Society Complex, 110 Shipcarpenter St. in Lewes.

This week’s market features two terrific demonstrations. First, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., Lewes in Bloom cofounder Brenda Brady and board member Diana O’Hagan will introduce the many medicinal, culinary and household herbs found in the Colonial herb garden next to the Fisher Martin House in Lewes’s Zwaanendael Park. Refurbished in 2007 by Lewes in Bloom, the garden highlights herbs used in the Lewes area during the 1700s by colonists and Native Americans.

From 10:30 to 11:15 a.m., Hattie Allen of Hattie's Garden will explain the secrets of fall vegetable gardening. The Delaware climate is mild enough to grow many quick-maturing fall vegetables, especially greens, and Allen will guide her audience through the easy and fast-growing salad greens and root crops for the fall garden. As Allen will discuss, planting now will yield fresh produce after the market closes and through Thanksgiving and into December.

Flawless fall weather has returned to the greater Lewes area bringing thoughts of warm soups, roasted winter vegetables, hearty stews and the last fabulous flowers of summer. What better way to welcome autumn than a hearty meal featuring fresh lima beans, succulent broccoli and farm fresh potatoes, as well as fresh apples for the kids (and maybe their teachers and parents, too).

The farmers market offers the best in late-summer produce, fresh seafood, farm-raised meats, chicken and pork, and flowers. Specific types and varieties of fresh meat, fruit, vegetables, flowers and plants are listed by vendor in the market newsletter which is sent to customers on Thursdays. To be included,  email historiclewesfarmersmarket@comcast.net.

For the safety of patrons and vendors, the Historic Lewes Farmers Market has adopted a new policy that pets (with the exception of service animals) are not permitted at its farmers market. More information about the market is available at www.historiclewesfarmersmarket.org.