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Topic: Do you use your farmers markets...
Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 09/20/08 11:02 AM
Today I got a bag full of hot peppers, purple bell peppers, and japanese eggplant for 3 dollars. I was out of my spicy, coarse ground, brown mustard. So I picked up a bottle of the garlic version of the same mustard. It is also on the spicy side. I bought a tub of salsa for about the same price as in the store. But where the store salsa lasts me a month, this will only last me a week. It is just so much better. They make their salsa's for market the night before. It is the ultimate in wonderful, fresh salsa. I also picked up spanicopeta (sp) for lunch and some cottage bacon for cooking. Cottage bacon is a slightly thicker bacon cut from an area with way more meet and only a very small amount of fat. It makes great sandwiches but you can't find it in the stores. Everyone should really take advantage of the fresh produce straight from the farm when they can. There is NO comparison.

WalkingEagle Joined Sat 05/03/08 Posts: 54	Sat 09/20/08 11:03 AM
I shop at them often...all the time in fact.

ddn122 Joined Mon 11/05/07 Posts: 12855	Sat 09/20/08 11:03 AM
yes, oh yes garlic powder is 2 bucks a pound.....at the store it is 4 bucks for half that...

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 09/20/08 11:04 AM Edited by Moondark on Sat 09/20/08 11:05 AM
I live two blocks from it. So I hit it every Saturday after payday. The only thing I miss is the fruit. There is very little fruit at any of the farmers markets around this area. Back home I bought mostly fruit. But I was on the border with Spokane then.

Winx Joined Fri 08/31/07 Posts: 39051	Sat 09/20/08 11:11 AM
I like the Farmer's Market. I wish it was closer to me. I grew my own garden this year.

Queene123 Joined Tue 06/26/07 Posts: 17056	Sat 09/20/08 11:31 AM Edited by Queene123 on Sat 09/20/08 11:32 AM
they have several of them here.. but they seem to be expensive, a friend of mine was telling me that her mom was going to buy strawberries and they wanted $30 for it and she of course didnt buy them it was to much so she went to a fruitstand that she usually goes to and got a better deal...

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 09/20/08 11:37 AM
Today I got a bag full of hot peppers, purple bell peppers, and japanese eggplant for 3 dollars. I was out of my spicy, coarse ground, brown mustard. So I picked up a bottle of the garlic version of the same mustard. It is also on the spicy side. I bought a tub of salsa for about the same price as in the store. But where the store salsa lasts me a month, this will only last me a week. It is just so much better. They make their salsa's for market the night before. It is the ultimate in wonderful, fresh salsa. I also picked up spanicopeta (sp) for lunch and some cottage bacon for cooking. Cottage bacon is a slightly thicker bacon cut from an area with way more meet and only a very small amount of fat. It makes great sandwiches but you can't find it in the stores. Everyone should really take advantage of the fresh produce straight from the farm when they can. There is NO comparison. I buy a lotta of my fresh produce from the Memnonites

ddn122 Joined Mon 11/05/07 Posts: 12855	Sat 09/20/08 11:39 AM
i don't think that is legal , here?? banana I buy a lotta of my fresh produce from the Memnonites

stardust50 Joined Tue 06/03/08 Posts: 542	Sat 09/20/08 11:44 AM
I grow my own veggies........mmmm mmmm good

Winx Joined Fri 08/31/07 Posts: 39051	Sat 09/20/08 11:47 AM
I just came back in from my garden. Fresh lima beans, cucumbers and watermelon tonite. Also, picked pumpkins.

MirrorMirror Joined Fri 10/26/07 Posts: 89680	Sat 09/20/08 12:06 PM
i don't think that is legal , here?? banana I buy a lotta of my fresh produce from the Memnonites really?

Winx Joined Fri 08/31/07 Posts: 39051	Sat 09/20/08 01:16 PM
Just ate celery from my garden.

euphoriaholic Joined Sun 03/23/08 Posts: 281	Sat 09/20/08 03:03 PM
We have several Saturday Markets close by to where I live and they are so fun to go to and see what craftsmen and farmers have to sell. We also have one every Thursay on Third Street in "downtown" McMinnville. The last one I went to was in Salem and I bought some homemade soap and flowers (sunflowers) oh and a tie-dyed skirt, not to much to offer in produce at that time since it was early June. But I really enjoy going to them and just walking through, nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon if I don't have any thing else planned. We also have farmers that have their own produce stands, where at some you can pick your own green beans, tomatoes or just buy from the stand, those are lots of fun also.

Moondark Joined Tue 11/27/07 Posts: 5866	Sat 09/20/08 05:17 PM
they have several of them here.. but they seem to be expensive, a friend of mine was telling me that her mom was going to buy strawberries and they wanted $30 for it and she of course didnt buy them it was to much so she went to a fruitstand that she usually goes to and got a better deal... That is shocking. Most places, you get better prices for fresh produce. That is some serious price gouging.

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Sun 09/21/08 01:45 PM
Sat morning here. I am waiting for red bell peppers to come down in price, $1.00 each right now. Lots of green chiles this yr too. Fresh baked sourdough. Lots of different berries throughout the summer Appples are coming in now too. Plus all the people too!!!