Jonell Galloway
What’s in season in the Lake Geneva region
The Lake Geneva region offers an interesting mix of spring, summer and fall fruit and vegetables at this time of year. It is surprising what a variety of local fruit and vegetables are still available this late in the growing season.
We plan to publish MarketView every week or so so you can take a look at our list before you go to the market. It should serve as a tool to help you make your grocery list and menus for the week before you go off to the market.
Since there is such a large variety at the moment, I’ve separated the list into categories.
Spring and summer fruit and vegetables
Aubergine/eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, courgette/zucchini, green beans, radishes, bell peppers of all colors.
Strawberries, corn, raspberries, blackberries (rarer than the other berries).
Rosemary, basil, mint, dill, coriander, parsley, laurel, scallions.
Fall fruit and vegetables
Baby carrots, radishes of all types, new potatoes, Swiss chard (blettes).
Rhubarb, grapes, apples, pears.
Wild greens of all types, mesclun, cabbage, beets.
Plums, peaches, leeks, pumpkin, squash of all types, cauliflower.
Flowers
GenevaLunch, 2 October 2009.
Filed under: Seasonal
Tags: farmers market, flowers, France, fruit, Geneva, genève, How to choose it, Lake Geneva, lausanne, local, MarketDay, MarketDay - Seasonal products, Suisse, Swiss, Switzerland, Vegetables
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October 2nd, 2009 at 13:39
Great to see so much information about such an interesting place as Geneva.
I did not realize it was so colourful at this time of year: summer, winter, autumn, all at the same time.
Must be a wonderful place for a cook to hang out.
October 4th, 2009 at 15:24
They have beautiful open markets I see. They’re much better organized than
where I live,but I think markets like this are fairly iuniversal and therefore tie us together as humans. I think there’s nothing like fresh produce and fresh flowers
October 6th, 2009 at 10:32
Thanks for the comment, Gayle. Where do you live? I’d love to hear more about the markets there, even if they are not as organized as here in Switzerland.
October 6th, 2009 at 21:33
Thank you for the beautiful photos.
Chanel has just shown their collection in Paris in a barn which is proof that FARMS are In! And the models are NOT wearing jeans…One of the local organic farmers told us that the public does not realize that in September there is still wonderful produce coming from the fields that needs to be purchased. In fact, farm stores can find something to sell year round.I encourage all to support their local farmers and dairies. It is In Style too.
October 7th, 2009 at 20:37
I think society has become so accustomed to living on a schedule–determined by school opening, school closing, the clothes we see in shop windows, the billboards we see–that we somehow think that it’s September, so it’s time to start eating fall vegetables.
I know in Switzerland, restaurants say people start asking for “chasse”, or game, as of September 1st, even though the hunting season hasn’t even started. For example, the 2009 season only started on 13th September. This forces restaurants to order game from other countries, such as Poland. This goes in the opposite direction of what you’re saying about the farmers who still have produce in your area, but I think we’re all a little like robots if we’re not careful.
I know that this morning’s market offered an abundance of local tomatoes, strawberries, aubergines/eggplants, courgettes/zucchini and sunflowers as beautiful as I’ve seen this year, along with fall fruit and vegetables, which are just beginning So people may think summer officially ends on 1st September, but the climate and weather patterns don’t usually coincide with this.
It was 26° in Geneva today, and there were loads of people walking around in winter coats with thick wool scarves wound round their necks. No wonder there are so many people have to do mind-body coordination work these days. Were they sweating and didn’t realize it?
October 9th, 2009 at 14:03
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