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Across the Fence:  buying at farm markets  |
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Tidy Aprons
True Blue Farmgirl
99 Posts
Oney Farmgirl #638
Colorado
USA
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 Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 07:59:46 AM
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My garden will only produce a small amount of food this year...plenty of tomatoes for slicing and canning salsa etc. but the other things well, not so much.
Is there something inherently wrong with buying green beans, corn, fruits, and other items like that at a farmers' market and canning those. Or is that a farmgirl no-no? 
~Oney~
"There's something a little holy in taking care of the places we inhabit, in summoning sheen. And there's a power in watching over our spaces, the rooms we move within, the sets where our life stories unfold." ~Lori Hall Steele |
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 08:12:56 AM
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Absolutely nothing wrong with it at all, Oney! Remember what MaryJane says about being a farmgirl! It's a condition of the heart! Which means it isn't determined by the condition of your garden! 
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 08:27:02 AM
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Besides Oney, buying at your Farmer's Market is still eating locally and supporting your neighbors! I always have to supplement my garden with stuff to put up for the winter.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 08:28:33 AM
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very well said, Cherry!
and Oney, by buying at your local farmers market you are supporting small local farmers and the concept of buying "Green"...in other words not buying produce picked green and ripening while being shipped to market hundreds/thousands of miles away! So put on your sun hat & apron & go enjoy your outting at your local farmers market....
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
"I've never met a sewing machine I didn't like!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Tidy Aprons
True Blue Farmgirl
99 Posts
Oney Farmgirl #638
Colorado
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 08:36:26 AM
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Thanks girls! kiss*kiss
~Oney~
"There's something a little holy in taking care of the places we inhabit, in summoning sheen. And there's a power in watching over our spaces, the rooms we move within, the sets where our life stories unfold." ~Lori Hall Steele |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 09:04:27 AM
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I don't think any of us can grow/raise everything we need/want, so thats why God created Farmers Markets.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Laila
True Blue Farmgirl
273 Posts
Laila
Kutztown
PA
USA
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Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 09:07:32 AM
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I buy all my produce for canning at our local produce auction. It works for me!
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
4813 Posts |
Posted - Jun 30 2009 : 2:00:17 PM
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You really need to be careful that you actually are buying local when you buy at the farmers markets. We had a HUGE problem in our state with vendors buying produce from national distributors and reselling it at farmers markets. I even once saw "Fresh Arkansas Bananas" at the farmers market!!!!!! Now we have "certified farmers markets" they have inspectors that visit the farmers at least twice a season to be certain that what they sell is actually grown or raised on tehir land. The certified markets in out state are 100% Arkansas! NO bananas!
Farmgirl Sister #17
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harmonyfarm
True Blue Farmgirl
785 Posts
Debbie
Southeastern
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Jul 01 2009 : 10:12:18 AM
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I totally agree with Cherry.
Canning good food is the same, whether you do it with your own produce or with some that someone else has lovingly grown.
One time, I saw a grocery store produce guy taking perfectly good peaches out to a dumpster. I mean these paeches only had thumb print size bruises on them. I quickly asked him if I could have them for my pigs (I didn't have any pigs then)but I took those peaches home and spent the next three days making peach jam....the store usually gave me left over greens to give to our rabbits as they weren't supposed to give the stuff away for human consumption...all I did was ask.
It truly IS a condition of the heart, being a farmgirl...
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
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NatureNymph
True Blue Farmgirl
73 Posts
Tracy
Barrie
Ontario
Canada
73 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 07:32:01 AM
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We'd starve too... just this week I discovered my romaine being gorged on by little black flying things... If we had a lot of failed crops, I can't imagine where I would be. I'd rather by from the farmer's market than the grocery store.
"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion." Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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QueenofQuiteAlot
True Blue Farmgirl
865 Posts
Dalyn
Milk 'n Honey Ranch
Central, WA
USA
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1930sgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
233 Posts
Joyce
Alberta
Canada
233 Posts |
Posted - Jul 02 2009 : 08:12:16 AM
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Hi Oney,
Well...I see absolutely nothing wrong with taking advantage of any purchasing opportunity! We've bought veggies from a farmer standing at the gate to his property before and beef from a friend's family. Whatever works!
We don't have enough growing space to provide all the food for our family, so we do our best to find the best quality produce from those who do have enough space. It's a winning situation all around. We get what we need and a farmer is able to make a living.
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