Every Sunday morning at least one person from our house walks down to the farmers market to pick up our produce for the week. All of the food is grown fairly locally and we are able to get it for a lot cheaper than at the grocery store. We are also able to get our eggs and milk. The free samples and 25 cent honey sticks are my favorite. The produce we buy there is equally amazing. The flavor in the produce is wonderful and I have began to love vegetables in a whole new way.
Next week is sadly the last week of the market until May; however, this week when Kelly and I arrived we were greeted with a fairly empty market. Where there are usually crowds of people swarming tables we found no one. There were spaces in the rows of tables and even the farmers that did show up had very limited produce.
This was very depressing. We have grown used to having very good produce and have become fairly spoiled by it. The other day I had a tomato in a salad and commented on how it was not good. My roommate informed me that their was nothing wrong with the tomato it was just from the grocery store and I was used to produce that was extremely fresh.
Who knew that I would move to a city and gain the taste of a farmer?
If you have the chance to buy your produce at a local market I strongly encourage it. Its better for the environment, your body, your wallet, and most definitely your mouth.
Usually this would be packed with people and tables.
