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Originally Posted by Fugee
The downtown "farmers' market" has opened for the season. If they limited it to stuff grown within a limited area (as they do in St. Paul), it would be mostly limited to meats, cheeses, honey, baked goods/sweets, greenhouse grown starter plants and hydroponic greenhouse tomatoes.
But there are several large vendors of fruits and vegetables. Why would people buy bananas, grapes, mangos, etc. from someone on the sidewalk rather than from a grocery store with a good produce section?
But I'm keeping my eyes open to see if the morel season will be early this year due to the warm weather. And I'm going to plan ahead how to saute and freeze some -- they didn't last long enough last year.
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I buy from both. The
co-op I buy from gets their stuff from organic farms nationally and locally. The
Mexican market has produce I can't get a lot of other places, and it's cheap, cheap, cheap. The
Midtown Farmers market is exclusively local produce. I don't think the quality differs too much from the Kroger, HEB, Central Market or Whole Foods, but the prices can be considerably different. Certainly, I'm not guaranteed any particular produce at the more market-y places, but usually the food is ridiculously fresh there.
