Some products at the Cambridge Farmers' Market are only available during certain seasons because different crops grow at different times of the year. Below is a list of what's in season each month. Please note these are approximate dates and may vary according to local weather.
Be sure to check out our feature item each month for food tips and recipes.
August: Raspberries
Raspberries are small berries that have hollow cores (that's the prime difference between them and blackberries) and come in delicate pink to deep red to golden and even black. Raspberries are perhaps the most delicate of all the berries. They are soft and sweet with a slightly sour zest when eaten fresh.
What to look for when buying/picking:
What to Look for
Look for matte berries with no bruising, crushing or anything remotely out of sorts.
What to Avoid
Avoid crushed, overly soft and bruised Raspberries. Raspberries do not keep for very long and should not be consumed if they are over a week old
Other Facts:
Raspberries have been crossed with other berries to form new species. The loganberry is a cross between raspberries and blackberries. The boysenberry is a cross between red raspberries, blackberries and loganberries. The nessberry is a cross between a dewberry, raspberry and blackberry and other crosses include laxtonberries, veitchberries, and mahdiberries.
There are over 200 different known species of raspberries.
Raspberries are a type of fruit known as an aggregate fruit. Aggregate fruits have flowers with multiple ovaries and each ovary produces droplets around a core formed by the flower. Each droplet could actually be considered a separate fruit.
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