Great temperatures and rain are creating an abundance of local produce at Atlanta farmers markets. Cooler California weather means we will have a full strawberry crop through the summer. Part of the loss from the recent fires in California was 200 acres of avocado trees.

BEST BUYS

Slicing and heirloom tomatoes

Watermelon

Gold zucchini and pattypan squash

Pickling and slicing cucumbers

Georgia peaches

Snowy and Rosa Bianca eggplant

Broccoli

Local farmers markets are offering yellow and wax beans; bicolor sweet corn; slicing grape, cherry and heirloom tomatoes; red torpedo onions; yellow crookneck zucchini and sunburst summer squash; white eggplant; sweet and hot banana peppers; okra; watermelon; cantaloupe.

LOOKING GOOD

Local organic bicolor sweet corn

Haricots verts, locally grown

Cantaloupe

Red torpedo onions

Valencia oranges

Asparagus

Broccoli prices are coming down.

PRICES GOING UP

Blueberries

West Coast bell peppers

Apples

Avocados

Green and wax beans

South Georgia sweet corn

IFFY

Grapefruit

Lettuces

Cherries

SEAFOOD

Look for good supplies of wild Alaskan salmon and Georgia and South Carolina wild fresh white shrimp.