Summer is peak farmers market season, when bounties of glorious stone fruit, berries, greens, and more herbs than you knew ...

Carrots can be a perfect cooler-weather crop, Mercer says. "Carrots taste sweeter when grown in cool temperatures, so being ...

Meanwhile, the weekly farmers market is a great place to stock up on an assortment of hot peppers, which are harder to come by. Look for yellow cayenne, aji rojo, or ghost peppers if you really ...