It is Farmer's Market Season! The reward of growing anything at home is great, but sometimes you just can't do it all. Finding a local market, or CSA (Community SupportedAgriculture) may be the right choice to supplement your home garden.
Farmer's Markets are a great weekend event that is fun for the whole family. Many larger markets provide seasonal produce as well as locally made crafts, baked goods, and preserved foods. Some even offer live entertainment, kids crafts, or food preparation demos. When it comes down to it, the best thing about the market is meeting with the people that grew the food that will be on your table tonight. It can also expose you to new foods you've never tried. I always love the challenge of cooking a new fruit or veggie.
CSA's are a great choice if you go through a lot of fresh produce in the summer months. These are generally local, small production farms that you invest in at the beginning of the season. You get a share of whatever is grown and harvested each week, rain or shine. If the crop flourishes, you win! If the crop fails, that's the gamble. Usually there is such a variety of produce that the failure of one crop is hardly noticed.
Want to find a Farmer's Market or CSA near you? Check out this link: http://www.localharvest.org/
Are you still in your CSA Liz? We have awse gamers market here. Russ and I will go on a whim just to walk around and have breakfast or dinner there (p-town has a pm market) and the extra bonus is they all have gluten free breads!
ReplyDeleteI'm not doing the CSA this year, because they decided to go all tomatoes. The one I did the previous year went all greens... I may join a local meat CSA though. Our Farmer's Market is really great too, you can find ANYTHING there, it just gets a little expensive sometimes.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth is a part of zanadu farm here at the old Conroy homestead:-) We need to hang our sign!
ReplyDeleteWe need to name our garden and make a sign!
ReplyDeleteI like that idea! My garden doesn't have a name :(. I want to name mine Xanadu too!
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