First Eastern Market, and now another favorite alternative grocery market is closing down at least temporarily, if not for good. Not too far north in Burtonsville, Md., the Dutch Country Farmers Market has been bringing Amish-grown goods down from Pennsylvania every weekend for the last 20 years. Visitors come from all over the region for fresh pies, produce, and maybe even a dinner of ribs and chicken. But get ’em while you can, because the…

Whoops. We neglected to bring you our weekly calendar of notable author visits yesterday, so here’s your slightly abbreviated version. Go forth and enjoy the wordy goodness. TUESDAY: Get ready for the farmer’s market season with Russ Parsons tonight at Politics and Prose, where he’ll be discussing how (and how not) to squeeze and shake for the perfect piece of fruit when he reads from How to Pick a Peach. 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Turn off…

For those with a keen eye, you might be able to figure out that the farmer’s market pictured here is not D.C. … it’s Palmdale, Calif. But that doesn’t matter. As Frozen Tropics points out, the fresh farm market on H Street NE is celebrating its one-year anniversary on Saturday. The anniversary was actually last week, but there will be a birthday cake to celebrate the occasion tomorrow. Buy a variety of items including (but…