Comments on: How to Shop a Farmers’ Market http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:51:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Cracking The Code | Mark's Daily Apple http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-401461 Cracking The Code | Mark's Daily Apple Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:35:37 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-401461 [...] How to Shop a Farmers’ Market [...] [...] How to Shop a Farmers’ Market [...]

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]]> By: Eating Healthy is Good for the Planet | Mark's Daily Apple http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-389179 Eating Healthy is Good for the Planet | Mark's Daily Apple Thu, 21 May 2009 23:34:17 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-389179 [...] local. Go to your co-op or farmers’ market and find out where the food originates. Talk to the farmers. Ask about their farming practices. [...] [...] local. Go to your co-op or farmers’ market and find out where the food originates. Talk to the farmers. Ask about their farming practices. [...]

]]> By: Cowpooling: How to Buy a Side of Beef | Mark's Daily Apple http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-387934 Cowpooling: How to Buy a Side of Beef | Mark's Daily Apple Mon, 18 May 2009 22:09:35 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-387934 [...] to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!You grow much of your own produce, visit your local farmers’ markets for the foods that you can’t grow yourself and have even started participating in a food [...] [...] to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting!You grow much of your own produce, visit your local farmers’ markets for the foods that you can’t grow yourself and have even started participating in a food [...]

]]> By: Cowpooling: Share a Side http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-226604 Cowpooling: Share a Side Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:36:04 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-226604 [...] grow much of your own produce, visit your local farmers’ markets for the foods that you can’t grow yourself and have even started participating in a food [...] [...] grow much of your own produce, visit your local farmers’ markets for the foods that you can’t grow yourself and have even started participating in a food [...]

]]> By: Simple tips to stay in great shape all year long! | Zen to Fitness http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-206936 Simple tips to stay in great shape all year long! | Zen to Fitness Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:00:04 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-206936 [...] into your local farmers market, most run on saturday mornings and will only hold the fresh seasonal produce so make it your go to [...] [...] into your local farmers market, most run on saturday mornings and will only hold the fresh seasonal produce so make it your go to [...]

]]> By: » CrossFit Coastal: Wilmington, NC http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-79880 » CrossFit Coastal: Wilmington, NC Sun, 25 May 2008 12:01:02 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-79880 [...] how-to: Bailing Prosciutto therapy; Or, how to make one’s own apartment-style dry cured ham How to shop a farmers’ market Visualizing success Mistressing the [...] [...] how-to: Bailing Prosciutto therapy; Or, how to make one’s own apartment-style dry cured ham How to shop a farmers’ market Visualizing success Mistressing the [...]

]]> By: Dana http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-65762 Dana Tue, 06 May 2008 23:01:50 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-65762 This is great information! The tips are great and I shared them with my readers so they can have a good understanding of how to navigate through the market. This is great information! The tips are great and I shared them with my readers so they can have a good understanding of how to navigate through the market.

]]> By: Sonagi http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-64224 Sonagi Tue, 06 May 2008 00:35:50 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-64224 In my experience, local produce that's sustainably grown but not certified organic is usually priced somewhere between supermarket conventional and organic. I pay $2.85 for a dozen real free range eggs, about $1 more than conventional but almost $1 less than Eggland's Best. I am fortunate enough to have a farmer who sells year round although the winter selection of produce is limited to apples, squashes, potatoes, onions, and if the weather isn't too nasty, kale from outside and spinach from an unheated greenhouse. I supplement with frozen vegetables rather than buy "fresh" stuff that's been trucked in from elsewhere. It looks and tastes like spring now that the kale is finally gone for the season, replaced by asparagus, lettuce, and mesclun. Strawberries will debut later this month as the first fresh fruit of the season. I'll have to hurry and finish up that mushy stuff in the freezer this week. You at Mark's Daily Apple are blessed to enjoy California's bountiful year-round agriculture. In my experience, local produce that’s sustainably grown but not certified organic is usually priced somewhere between supermarket conventional and organic. I pay $2.85 for a dozen real free range eggs, about $1 more than conventional but almost $1 less than Eggland’s Best.

I am fortunate enough to have a farmer who sells year round although the winter selection of produce is limited to apples, squashes, potatoes, onions, and if the weather isn’t too nasty, kale from outside and spinach from an unheated greenhouse. I supplement with frozen vegetables rather than buy “fresh” stuff that’s been trucked in from elsewhere. It looks and tastes like spring now that the kale is finally gone for the season, replaced by asparagus, lettuce, and mesclun.

Strawberries will debut later this month as the first fresh fruit of the season. I’ll have to hurry and finish up that mushy stuff in the freezer this week.

You at Mark’s Daily Apple are blessed to enjoy California’s bountiful year-round agriculture.

]]> By: Ron http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-63543 Ron Mon, 05 May 2008 15:37:40 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/how-to-shop-farmers-market/#comment-63543 I always shop at my local farmer's market whenever I can, and am also fortunate to have a daily local produce stand I can walk to. You just can't compare the freshness and flavor to supermarket produce. Where else will you have an egg vendor who also sells Balut(steamed fertilized duck eggs w/embryo)! I always found the prices only slightly more but competitive with the supermarkets. I haven't seen any increases but expect to see them due to higher fuel prices and the fact most of the participating farms are about 2-4 hours from the SF Bay Area. I always shop at my local farmer’s market whenever I can, and am also fortunate to have a daily local produce stand I can walk to. You just can’t compare the freshness and flavor to supermarket produce. Where else will you have an egg vendor who also sells Balut(steamed fertilized duck eggs w/embryo)! I always found the prices only slightly more but competitive with the supermarkets. I haven’t seen any increases but expect to see them due to higher fuel prices and the fact most of the participating farms are about 2-4 hours from the SF Bay Area.

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