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Farmers Market Shopping List

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Catonsville Farmers Market – what I got there this past Wednesday:

free range ground beef (no hormones or antibiotics),  smoked rainbow trout, smoked hummus, Colby Longhorn cheese, cranberry-walnut bread and spelt bread, delicious, juicy, summer peaches, a large amount of golden apples and a crap-load of veggies.  I got some red okra and lots of peppers in all shades or green, yellow and red.  I got some cute little garlic and little onions.  I got several kinds of lettuce, yellow wax beans.  I even got a new cedar air freshener for the car.

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Support Your Local and Regional Growers, Save Cash

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Fresh ZucchiniSo, Wednesday was market day.

And, by market I don’t mean a trip to the nearest strip-mall supermarket with cart corrals, though I shop at Giant and Safeway like everyone else.  It was walk-to-market day.  I work from home one day a week, and every other Wednesday I’m afforded the luxury of my own private branch office in Catonsville, MD.  Not only to I get to save 20% on my commuting fuel consumption, I can walk or ride to somewhere interesting on our “main street” at lunch time.

Every Wednesday morning, from May to November, we have a local farmers’ market.  It’s small, it’s in the community center parking lot, but it’s better than just about any grocery store’s produce department. All vendors must grow or produce for themselves all of the goods they sell.  No “faux-farmers” offloading trucks of greenhouse tomatoes from produce distributors; these folks grow it, care for it, pick it, and truck it to your community.  We use the farmers’ market a lot.  When I’m home on Tuesdays instead of Wednesday, Theresa makes the trip to gather the goods.

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