Farmers’ Market Shopping Tips
Posted By Grumpy Glenn and Judy on April 20, 2009
Here are some tips to ensure a wonderful Farmers Market experience:
- Use the market as a place to plan your meal. Go to the market, and get inspired. Learn to shop and eat “seasonally.”
- Stroll around the market to get a sense of everything available before you begin your purchasing. Each vendor has different products, and it is nice to take in the “big picture” before you begin shopping.
- Get the kids involved. Give them a few dollars and let them buy whatever produce they want and will eat.
- Experiment! What better place to try a funny-looking pepper, or a new flavor of jam.
- Take your time! This is your opportunity to ask a vendor their favorite way to cook lamb, or learn how much water that beautiful new plant may need.
- Bring a cooler with you, for perishable items such as cheese, eggs, and meat.
- Come early so that you aren’t disappointed! Many vendors will sell out of some of their products quickly.
- Don’t forget your “market” canvas totes to hold your loot. Reducing market waste and buying locally produced goods go hand in hand!
- Shopping at the Farmers Market is a wonderful way to get beautiful food and handcrafts from the people who make them, visit with friends (new and old!) and truly delight in the bounty of the season.
- Bring a friend to the market. Turn someone else on to the rich satisfaction that can be found through the food and community at the Farmers Market.
Shopping is really a good thing to do. Unwind yourself after a very long weeks of stressful work. In buying things you really want, always for about weeks to past because the boutique might be on sale after a few weeks. It pays to wait though!