Farmers Market Morning

Do you frequent your local farmers market? In our city, population approximately 275,000 we have only one very small market on Friday mornings in the Sears parking lot. Glamorous, I know. But I have been trying to get in the habit of buying my produce on Fridays and supporting our local growers. Would you like to come along and see the market through my eyes (lens)?

Did you notice what I noticed? The earth, the soil, the pristine freshness of the vegetables? When I loaded these images on my computer they moved me even more than seeing them in person. Real food. From real farmers. Who planted, grew and harvested them by themselves. Not a single supermarket can replicate this no matter how hard they try. My produce came from a few miles away not an ocean and a continent away.

This is what I brought home and if you click on the photo to enlarge it you can see what I made or am planning on making with my bounty.

If you'd like to find a market in your area I suggest visiting Local Harvest, FarmersMarket or The Huffington Posts list of the Top Ten Farmers Markets. Maybe you can pile the kids in the car next weekend and show them where vegetables come from. Who knows…they may even want to eat them!