All our Farmer's Markets are open! Yeah! Visited the Natural/Organic one  

Thank you very much for responding, it sounds wonderful! I love to hear about different, but similar things from around the world as well as from around my country. I have many friends from India who write responses and questions here. Take care and I hope to hear from you again.

So many things to look at, it must be really, really fun. We have one Farmer's market in a downtown merchant area, another in a church parking lot before a line of stores, one at an Air Port, one on the lawn of an Inn, so anywhere there is one, doesn't surprise me any more. But yours sounds huge! Ours are also on fixed days. I love that we can actually talk to the people who grew whatever stuff they're selling. Also the freshness, in America, some food from stores took a week or longer to get there, but what we buy at the market was picked or collected that morning. Thanks again for responding and take care.

Aren't Farmer's Markets fun? Ours tend to not be less expensive than stores very often, but sometimes they have something on sale. Our laws and taxes, even for farmets don't make anything cheap.

Only 12 miles away? I live 25 miles from everything, so 12 miles sounds great to me.

It's rough when you work the days they run. I work weekends, too. My work days seem to be getting shorter and I may be able to go to one before work and use a picnic cooler with freezer packs to keep everything cool before I come home. Even then, there would only be some stuff I would trust to not get too warm before I came out of work, but it would depend on the temps of the day.

I was only able to go to the Thursday one because they let us out of work early due to lack of work last Thursday, normally I work 12 to 5 and the market runs 2 to 6 so by the time I would get to it, they would be packing up. But they let me out at 4 last time, so that was great.

Yes, I like grass fed beef, tastes more like what I was brought up with. Nowaday, who knows what's in everything. Thanks for responding.

Yes, I find some stores, if I don't eat the food that day, the next, it's spoiled. Sometimes I have to pick through spoiled food to find the good food. There is one store that consistantly has food that is only good for one or two days. I can't be buying fresh produce every other day. Much of our produce is trucked from Mexico and California or West Coast ports all the way to the Eastern US. That can take a week. Then it goes in the back of the store. Then an employee must come in and sort through and pick dead leaves off, etc. So over a week before it's even on the shelf and then I think some places keep it another week there.

When you go and come back, let me know what it's like at your Farmers' Market. Some day I'd like to do a combination wild food and Farmers' Market tour of the world. It's a dream and it would take lots of money, buy I would like to eat around the world (right now I'm too poor to pay for gas, so who knows what I'm thinking, but I can dream). Thanks for responding and take care.

I will do that if I ever get to it. I've swopped to a local greengrocer as much as possible as the fruit and veg lasts longer. I still get fruit and veg from supermarkets as they are opened longer hours.

Ok, thanks.