Farmer’s Market Delight [Real Food]

We have discovered the beauty of the farmer’s market. Strawberries, carrots, farm fresh eggs, pastured pork sausage, broccoli, spinach, garlic … it’s a beautiful thing really.

We have, for several months now, gotten fresh produce delivered to us from Nature’s Garden Delivered. We’ve alternated between mixed boxes, fruit boxes, and veggie boxes – finally settling on a all-veggie box as our primary selection. We can exchange three items each week, so we add some fruit in that way. Overall it’s been great for us … we have tried lots of new veggies just because we couldn’t make any more exchanges! Best of all – D discovered veggies weren’t as bad as he once thought they were.

But the farmer’s market is just so much more fun…

Baby girl seems to like the market too. We carry her around in the Ergo and she makes friends with whoever she meets. Even when they think she’s a boy!

So we’ve decided to make the farmer’s market a weekly outing. It may be the only place we can actually find milk from grass-fed cows and true free range eggs that eat nothing but seeds and bugs.

And the strawberries … oh man … to put it in the words of my sister: “That tastes like candy!”

We have discovered that the farmer’s market is not always cheaper than the regular grocery store. But – the quality is by far much better than anything you’d find in any grocery store. And much fresher too. So we’ve decided the little bit of extra cost is totally worth it. I never knew fruits and veggies could taste so good!

I don’t know we’ll do in the winter when the farmer’s market goes into hibernation…

Have you discovered your local farmer’s market? What are your favorite finds?