Thanks to Blossom Bluff Orchard, Kaki Farm, and Kashiwase Farm, the market are adorned with orange Hachiya persimmons as bright as holiday lights. Enjoying a Hachiya's honey-sweetness and warm notes of cinnamon requires patience. Leave them on your counter until they are soft, translucent, and jelly-like (when unripe, they are unpleasantly astringent). Or take the road less traveled and make hoshigaki, or Japanese air-dried Hachiyas often referred to as the “kobe beef of dried fruit." It's a slow, rewarding winter project fit for the foodie in your life. Kits like the one pictured above are available for sale at Blossom Bluff Orchard, and they're one of many unique gifts you'll find at the Berkeley Farmers' Markets until our last market on Saturday, December 23rd.
Easy Eating: Enjoy fresh persimmon pulp over yogurt and granola or, better yet, get baking! Persimmon Cookies, in addition to the cake below, are a great option for the holiday dessert table.
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Perimmon Cake with Citrus Glaze |
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 1/4 cups Hachiya persimmon pulp
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/2 cup softened butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp orange juice
- 1 Tbsp brandy or cognac
Icing
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp orange juice
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- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Remove skin from persimmons and seed the fruit. Blend the pulp in a food processor or blender and set aside.
- Mix all dry cake ingredients in a large bowl and set aside.
- Blend the sugar into the butter until creamy. Add the eggs, orange juice and cognac to the butter mixture and beat until fully incorporated.
- Blend in the persimmon puree.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter and persimmon mixture and mix until barely incorporated.
- Grease a 9x13 pan and then spread the batter inside.
- Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- To make the icing, mix the powdered sugar, orange juice and lemon juice in a bowl until you have a thick syrupy consistency. Add more juice or sugar to get your desired consistency.
- When the cake is cooled, ice and enjoy!
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Saturday Downtown Berkeley
Achadinha Cheese Co.
All Things Sharp
Andy's Thai
Avalos Farm
Bariani Olive Oil
Beber Almond Milk
Bolani
Billy Bob Orchards
Big Little Bowl
Bun Bao
C&M Farm
Cafe Zambala
Coracao
Dirty Girl Produce
Flying Disc Ranch
Four Sisters Farm
Frog Hollow Farm
Gattonelli
Good Faith Farm
Golden Rule Organics
Happy Boy Farms
Higher Land Coffee
Joodooboo Tofu
Kaki Farm
Kashiwase Farm
Laguna Garden Bakery
Lifefood Gardens
Little Fish
Massage
Morell's Bread
Obour Hummus
Pomo Tierra Orchard
Phoenix Pastificio
Primavera Tamales
Queen of Sheeba Honey
Riverdog Farm
Smit Farms
Solano Mushroom
Stepladder Creamery
Tamales La Oaxaqueña
Three Stone Hearth
Tony's Kettle Corn + Crepes (out every 1st Sat)
True Grass Farm
Vang Family Farm
VIO Pastry
Your Granola Garden
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Tuesday South Berkeley
Andy's Thai
Alexandre Family Farm
Avalos Farm
Basecamp Bakery
Billy Bob Orchards
Brokaw Ranch
Bolani
Blossom Bluff Orchard
Donna's Tamales
Dirty Girl Produce
Farm Chocolate
Frog Hollow Farm
Full Belly Farm
Good Faith Farm
(every other week)
Kaki Farms
Kashiwase Farm
Lifefood Gardens
Little Fish Co.
Massa Organics
Oya Organics
Phoenix Pastificio
Queen of Sheeba Honey
Riverdog Farm
Roadside Rotisserie
Sea to Sky Farm
Silver Sky Ranch
Solano Mushroom
Soul Flower Farm
Smit Farms
Stepladder Creamery
The Fruit Tree
Three Stone Hearth
Yume Boshi
(every other week)
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Thursday North Berkeley
All Things Sharp
Big Little Bowl
Blossom Bluff Orchards
Crane Creek Growers
Donna's Tamales
E&H Mushroom Farm
Farm Chocolate
Frog Hollow Farm
Golden Rule Organics
Little Fish
Massa Organics
Massage
Mendoza Organics
Morell's Bread
Phoenix Pastificio
Pomo Tierra Orchard
Riverdog Farm
Roadside Rotisserie
Saltie Co. Granola new!
The Fruit Tree
Uplands Apiary
Wise Jun Kombucha
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Thursday: Saltie Co. Granola - new! | |
Vendors Out
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Saturday: Peach Jamboree, Brokaw Ranch, Lucero Organics, True Grass Farm
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Tuesday: Peach Jamboree, Lucero Organics, Lou Vue, Full Belly Farm, Chay' Farm
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Thursday: Chay's Farm
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Shop local, shop sustainable!
Only one more week to shop our craft series, Locavore Wonderland...
| Yes, you can find great place to find gifts! Over the month of December, join us every Berkeley Farmers’ Market for a holiday gifting series featuring up to 8 weekly pop-up vendors selling even more gifts for the foodies in your lives—plus handmade jewelry, custom knits, stained glass, soaps & body care, pottery, and other handmade goods. The last Locavore Wonderland is Saturday December 23rd. | |
...and shop the Ecology Center Store! | |
This holiday season, you can do your holiday gift shopping without contributing to the massive consumption of wasteful products sold in big box stores. We have carefully vetted the quality and sustainability of the products we carry in our store, and when you shop locally, you support the economy that enriches our local communities. You can celebrate the holidays and honor sustainability at the same time!
Holiday Hours
12/1 through 12/23
Tues - Sat, 11 am to 6 pm
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Lorin District Association Holiday Open House
Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023
SW corner of Alcatraz and Adeline; 12pm–5pm
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This coming Tuesday just north of the South Berkeley Farmers' Market, join the Lorin Business Association and see all the district has to offer! Pick up a Lorin District passport at the south west corner of Alcatraz and Adeline to stamp at the farmers' market and five other participating businesses in the neighborhood to receive a special prize. | |
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On Tuesday, December 19, Oakland City Council is considering an ordinance that will require reusables for restaurant dine-in and larger venues like concerts, and allow take-out customers to opt into receiving items like plastic utensils and straws. If passed, this policy will promote reuse and help consumers avoid plastic foodware- keeping our streets clean and reducing our reliance on petrochemicals! Join us in the fight to make the Bay Area #disposablefree! | |
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Berkeley Farmers' Market Holiday Schedule
Markets will be closed for the winter holidays on the following days:
Tuesday, December 26
Thursday, December 28
Saturday, December 30
The last market of the year will be Saturday, December 23, 2023. Markets will resume a normal schedule on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
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Upcoming Events at the Berkeley Farmers' Markets | |
Saturday December 16: Easy Does It Tabling
Tuesday December 19: Kid's Art Table
Thursday December 21: Kid's Art Table
Saturday December 23: Last market of 2023!
Tuesday January 2: First market of 2024!
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Farmers' Market Hours & Locations
EBT and WIC Fruit & Vegetable checks gladly accepted and Market Match incentives distributed at all markets.
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South Berkeley
Tuesdays, 2 - 6:30 pm
Adeline St. at 63rd St.,
Berkeley
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North Berkeley
Thursdays, 3 - 7 pm
Shattuck Ave. at Rose St., Berkeley
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Downtown Berkeley
Saturdays, 10 am - 3 pm
Center St. at MLK Jr. Way, Berkeley
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