summer produce guide: what to eat right now (beginning of june)

A weekly summer produce guide to what’s in season right now based on the contents of our CSA share, with CSA and farmer’s market recipes and inspiration.

We’ll get back to vegetables next week, but for now, let’s have some fruit. In Virginia, the sour cherry season is just a week or two, while sweet cherries stretch out a bit more. Weather depending, blueberries should be around for much of June. Strawberries are wrapping up, and mulberries are ripe for a hot second before all that fruit splats on the sidewalk.

New York (I’m back again this week!) is a couple of weeks behind Virginia fruit-wise and a couple weeks ahead of us fashion-wise. Of course, once ripe, all these fruits enjoy a longer season at the NYC Greenmarkets since they draw from farms stretching from southern Jersey to Vermont.

Sweet Cherries
Bing Cherry Slab Pie // Brooklyn Supper
Quick-Pickled Cherries // Brooklyn Supper
Rainier Cherry Mojito // Cookie + Kate

Blueberries
Blueberry Mini-Crepe Cake // i am a food blog
Meyer Lemon Blueberry Pancakes // Brooklyn Supper
Mizuna with Blueberries and Feta // Brooklyn Supper

Sour Cherries
Classic Lattice-Top Sour Cherry Pie // Brooklyn Supper
Sour Cherry Hand Pies // Brooklyn Supper
Sour Cherry Ice Cream // Brooklyn Supper
Sour Cherry Galette // Brooklyn Supper
Buttermilk Waffles with Sour Cherry Maple Syrup // Dula Notes

Mulberries
Mulberry Bakewell Tart // British Larder
Mulberry Jam // Taste of Beirut
Mulberry Fumble // River Cottage

Strawberries
Strawberry Coconut Ice Cream // Shutterbean
Strawberry Peanut Butter Cookie Salad // My Name Is Yeh
Kale, Bacon, and Strawberry Salad // Brooklyn Supper for Food52