This week’s market spoils…

by Sister-Diane on June 14, 2009

in Growing Stuff, Making Food

We visited the Orenco Market today, which, despite its cuteness, held very few produce vendors. (A tiny rant: why call it a farmer’s market if no farmers can be found there?)

Still, I did get some Hood strawberries – a Northwest variety that’s absolutely luscious.

…And this time, was smart enough to ask to taste the sugar snaps first – these are perfect. I’m enjoying my first chlorophyll high of the season even as I type.

The cherries have begun to arrive, and look tempting, but I’ve learned the hard way too many times – buy them a bit later in the season so they’re nice and sweet. Can’t wait to make some muffins soon!

The flowers were lovely this week, too.

I also like the Orenco Market for the cool, Sesame Street feel of the surrounding neighborhood. If I lived on this street, I would absolutely rig up an animatronic Oscar the Grouch in a trash can for my front stoop.

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  • Just a tiny rant of mine. While buying from local farmer's market stands I realized that 90% of the product they were selling was from the wholesaler, some from foreign countries. I was paying sometimes $1.50 more per pound of product to support local farmers but buying the same exact produce at the big chain grocery store 1/4 mile down the road!

    Ditto for 'farmer's markets'. A local farmer will sell one thing they grow (corn) and then offer up lots of imported other stuff, same brands (seen on box) as the big grocery store.

    That is cheating IMO.

    Other times vendors sell product says "Connecticut grown" but it is from other farmers, not them, they bought it at the wholesaler.

    I wish the produce was clearly marked.

    Now at farmer's markets I buy their own stuff they grow and ignore same produce at the booth next door that is imported. In other words the vendor in one booth fools the consumer so we don't give our money to the guy next door who grew his own produce.
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