Farmer's Market

@DaddyEvil yes they are fresh and sometimes we get it cheaper than from another place.

@sjvg1976 Yep. They are usually cheaper than the grocery store and, as you said, fresh.

We went on to the local grocery store and bought everything we need for the next two weeks. Things taste better when they're locally grown.

Yup! Me, too!

@DaddyEvil I would it is a building, there are different stalls selling fruits, vegetables, fish, meat, seafoods.

@jobelbojel I'd have to see it to be sure, but I think we'd call that more of a supermarket... maybe.

Is it in a building or is it different stands all grouped together and the produce is brought in each day from a farm? Our Farmer's Markets is different stands with stuff from different farms on offer and usually the farmer's wife or daughter is running the stand and collecting money for the items being sold there.

We're going to go back this Saturday and see what's there, assuming it doesn't rain this Saturday. Maybe we just hit a bad Saturday to get fruit and veggies. I'm not sure what to call what we saw... It was set up where the Farmer's Market always was before the pandemic.

@moffittjc Thanks. It's not far from our house, so we will be going back.

@DaddyEvil Good luck if you venture back! Hopefully you find what you’re looking for.

Yup. I call garage sales garbage sales because it's stuff other people throw out. Before the pandemic, it was all fruits and veggies. Now it's just junk. We're going to go again tomorrow and if they don't have fruits and veggies, we're done.

@MarshaMusselman They set up in the City Hall parking lot. They don't pay for a space. Anybody can set up there.

@DaddyEvil it's odd that is all that was there. Maybe no one is regulating it.

The babies said hello back! Pre-pandemic Pretty and I always bought a membership with a large farm outside of Springfield. We'd pay around $100 in February or April and then drive to Springfield every Saturday and pick up boxes of veggies and fruit. It was really nice. I don't know if the farm went out of business during the pandemic. I know we didn't get the brochure from them this year. It's easy to miss posts on myLot. Blink and posts you might be interested in are buried under stuff nobody is interested in reading, let alone commenting on. *shrug*

@DaddyEvil The babies look happy there . Farm fresh goodies every weekend - that must've been awesome! It'd be really sad if that farm went out of biz . . . but oh I'll bet being in agriculture is most difficult these days, especially with the nutso weather patterns. I don't think our farms here have such a membership thing. Yah, things are just kinda hit and miss here I guess .

@much2say We loved almost everything we got from them. (We don't eat okra, so gave those to the nice old couple next-door. We also gave them some of the tomatoes. We didn't eat those fast enough.) Here in the Ozarks, we're getting plenty of rain but enough sun that the veggies we have are doing lovely. I'd find it hard to believe they aren't getting very similar weather 40 miles away from us. (We still had tomatoes blooming and setting in late November last year.) I'd share the rain we've been getting if I could.

@crazyhorseladycx I've been having trouble with my email for six months or so. My laptop is getting old and doesn't want to play nicely with programs that aren't actually running on the laptop. (I have a brand new laptop and have set it up but I don't like Win11, so keep using my old Win8.1 machine. ) We were WAY too hot this year for most veggies to produce well. Even my spinach, green onions, tomatoes and bell peppers didn't produce well on the porch in their pots. Pretty and I kept them watered but the heat stayed above 100F most of the summer. I'm not surprised the farms around us were having problems producing veggies. (My spinach bolted as soon as it reached about two and a half weeks old. I tried planting more but it bolted even faster. The tomatoes and bell peppers both had blooms but when they tried to set fruit, the fruit shriveled and dropped off the plants, even with us watering them every morning and evening. The green onions did okay but they tasted funny, so Pretty pulled them up and threw them away.) In August, the heat returned to "normal" here and we finally started getting loads of tomatoes and bell peppers setting and staying on the vines until harvested. But that put them right up against the frost here. We got about twenty tomatoes that ripened on the vine and I brought in fifteen more to ripen in the kitchen window. The bell peppers produced well in August but they barely had time to ripen before the first frost, as well. We had a squirrel who was positive we were planting the red and green lettuces for his person larder. He ate more of them than we did. He looked like he gained a pound this summer from eating all the lettuce in our garden pots. (Pretty named him "Fatty". )

Hey! I was just thinking I'd need to send you an email and check on you a day or two ago! I'm happy to see you! The people that ran the local farmer's market told me nobody had any produce for sale yet so they let the people who did have something to sell set up booths. But I think they just wanted money instead of fallowing "normal" procedures. I never did see any fruit or veggies being sold there this last year.

@DaddyEvil seems my email 'tis broken ;) then 'gain, months go by with no puter so's i could've zillions, lol. most odd they'd no produce 't all this year?? seems they'd be goin' more the route 'f a 'flea market'. makes ya wonder if'n they need permits fer such...

I know. Before the pandemic, they had fruits and veggies. I don't know why they don't now.

@DianneN We stayed cold longer than we normally do, so it's possible fruit and veggies aren't quite ripe here. Our garden plants are growing slower than normal this year.

@DaddyEvil I have no idea either. Perhaps certain produce hasn’t ripened, yet.

What we saw as we walked up looked like a garage sale, not a craft sale. And we were only looking for fresh fruits and veggies.

@paigea We saw garage (I normally call them garbage sales.) sales all over the city as we drove to the grocery store this morning. My eyes are swelling up so we wanted to get what we needed and get home before they swelled enough I couldn't drive. I'm lying on my keyboard to see to type now. I won't be on myLot much longer today.

@DaddyEvil at least ours don't turn into garage sales. That would be annoying. I do browse garage sales, but I am very careful not to drag home more STUFF!

Yeah, I wish we had one now. The one that used to be on our town square doesn't have any fruits or vegetables anymore. Last Saturday, Pretty and I went to a local orchard and I picked up a bushel of peaches and two quarts of strawberries. On our way home we saw an older gentleman parked beside the highway selling watermelons from his truck. We stopped and bought three of them from him. We ate part of one this morning for breakfast.

@lovebuglena He had both types. The round ones for $6 and the long ones for $9 each. We bought one long one and two round ones. The long one has seeds but is delicious. The round ones are supposed to be seedless. We haven't cut one of them open yet. (We don't have enough room in our fridge for two partial melons.)

@DaddyEvil Where they big and long? Or were they more round?

We gave up on the local farmer's market. A couple of weekends ago we went to a nearby orchard and bought peaches. We don't have room to grow fruits and I've got six bell pepper plants growing on our front porch. They have lots of flowers but aren't producing any bell peppers yet. Our tomato plants are blooming too, but no baby tomatoes yet.

@nela13 Oh, that must be so nice! I'd love some cherry tomatoes!

@DaddyEvil I also have peppers and tomatoes on our farm, we already have some cherry tomatoes that I love.

Oh, wow! That would be great! There was an older man who stopped on the street in front of our house with watermelons in his truck. We bought two of them. They were really good! Is everything going okay with you? I've missed talking with you.

@Hanbinandaeyo Oh, no! I'm very sorry to know that. My condolences to both of you and his family. How did the testing go?

@DaddyEvil that's good to hear..at least you have tasted sweet watermelon and helped the man too.. It's been a tough quite past months.. My hubby's mom past away first week of June..just 3 days after we've gone to Manila to get/have my pre medical..

We tried three times to get fruits and veggies at the one here but they only had hand-crafted items we aren't interested in. We finally went to an orchard six miles away to buy peaches and some veggies. Peaches are my favorite fruit. I used to eat just peaches while they were in season but had to stop doing that a few years ago. I still eat one or two a day, but have to limit myself now. Have you ever gotten "white" peaches? That's what we used to grow on our farm when I was a kid. Eating those peaches brings back so many memories.

@MarieCoyle When I rented my first apartment, there was an old lady who lived in the next apartment. She would bring me peach cobbler or apple pies. (She always said I was too skinny and she wanted to fatten me up. ) Her fresh baked items were always delicious, even though I'd never heard of cheddar cheese baked in apple pies before. She was so nice.

@DaddyEvil Yes, there are many varieties of peaches and the white ones are delicious. There is an apple farm close to me, they do bring in peaches from another orchard about an hour away. They say they will have them next week. I hit the fresh peaches in the summer, they are such a treat to me. I also make and freeze a few peach pies for later to share with the kids. So good. I know what you mean about memories. Grandma's peach pies and cobblers. One of my aunts made the best peach ice cream in the world.

@DaddyEvil if we don’t travel north to visit my daughter we may stop at our local to see what they are offering.

@ElusiveButterfly A few days ago there was an older gentleman parked along the highway selling watermelons out of the back of his truck. We stopped and picked up three of them. I cut one of them open this morning and fixed my daughter and I bowls of it for breakfast. Delicious! Photo is mine.

We went back this last Saturday. It was still only the same things but not fruits, veggies or homemade foods. Our Farmer's Market was only fruits, veggies or homemade foods before the pandemic began. They've really let things slide. I left a review on Yelp. Somebody on the rules' board said they were trying to start it up again but the people selling bric-a-brac were the only ones interested in setting up stalls, so far. We stopped at a local orchard and bought some peaches and strawberries Saturday afternoon.

@DaddyEvil I love peaches and watermelon.

@Tampa_girl7 Peaches are my favorite fruit with watermelons a close second.

Yes, it was. We finally went to a nearby orchard and bought peaches and watermelons.

Thank you. Those are the babies we were given by an old lady when Pretty was around 5 years old. They were old even then since they belonged to the old lady's son when he was a little boy.

@VivaLaDani13 The elephant was given to me. They're still sitting in that chair in the living room.

@DaddyEvil You're welcome. They are just so adorable. How sweet of her to give them to Pretty. Just lovely to still have them.

That's what we bought before the pandemic. Now there aren't any fruits and veggies.

@thelme55 I agree. We have enough junk of our own.

@DaddyEvil That is sad. I don’t like to buy the junk of other people.

The local Farmer's Market is a km from us, too. It's been over two years since it was allowed to open so we expected/hoped for a really good turnout.

@DaddyEvil That's a long drive. In addition to the distance of our local farmer's market, we have retail farmer's market. Retail is the owner of this will be the buying in bulk and added some pennies into it then sell it within the neighborhood. The nearest retail farmer's market in my area is about 25 meters, I think or 30 meters.

@luisga814 A kilometer is just over half a mile. It's a quarter mile from our house to the edge of our city. Half a mile is not very much here. The people selling stuff in the local Farmer's Market must grow their own fruits and veggies. They aren't allowed to buy it elsewhere and bring it in to sell it.

That sounds good! I wish our Farmer's Market had fruits and veggies to buy.

@DaddyEvil our local market like it also have meat and fish like its everything. but we most call our local market as (Wet Market) as it was a market without the doors like in grocery and have wet roads(cement or dirt) as some fishes or fresh goods are going in there.

@DevMrSamEleazar Yes, I've talked to Filipino friends about the markets there. It's not the same as markets here. We don't have "wet markets". We buy fish or meat at a grocery store. The fish or meat are packaged up with a price tag on them. We just pay the price plus tax for the government to waste. (The government isn't supposed to waste the taxes we pay but they do anyway. )