If you want to grow your own, you can pick up plenty of seeds and plants to start from scratch here.įor more fresh, local food, read Your guide to Pittsburgh area farmers’ markets. You can also pick your own fruit, and peach season is coming up soon. They do, however, have a nice selection of summer produce, including broccoli, kale, peppers and spinach.

This farm and greenhouse - there are actually two locations in McMurray - specializes in a lot of things other than produce, flowers in particular. Though best known for a massive selection of kid-friendly attractions (a petting zoo, the Squirrel Hill tunnel slide, friendly goats, etc.) - all currently closed due to COVID-19 - Triple B also has a nice little farmer’s market with an ample selection of jams, fruits and Amish butters and cheeses. Plus, Soergel Orchards is probably the best place to buy apples and apple cider in the fall, with dozens of varieties, including some hard-to-find specialties like the sweet and slightly tart Stayman-Winesap. Should you need to bribe some adults, Arsenal Cider has a shop here with nine varieties of cider, some made with Soergel’s apples, and others with pear, honey, raspberry and rhubarb.

There’s also a deli, a bakery making fresh fruit pies and an ice cream shop - should you need to bribe some children -serving Buffalo’s superior Perry’s Ice Cream. I hope their decission hurts their business & vendor shows.

As far as produce goes, they’ve got everything from cabbage to eggplant, blackberries to onions, cantaloupe to summer squash to tomatoes. Starten in jan traxx will not allow any vendor that has baked goods, food or anything that can be competition for trax farm. This time of year, it’s fresh blueberries, straight from the fields that rise behind and above the cluster of shops. This is the heavyweight champion of Pittsburgh’s northern farms - if it can be jarred, pickled or picked, you’ll find it here.

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