Sunday, May 9, 2010

Farmers Market Experiment: Week 2

Full disclosure: I bought grapefruit yesterday at Jon's. Otherwise, you can see my loot below: lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, tangerines, baby artichokes, snap peas, green garlic, and cherriesssssss!!!! All for $24. A bit more than last week but I also bought a bit more. I love the green garlic, it's expensive ($1) but worth it.

I also love talking to the growers, about their food, when their season starts, etc. The cherry guy was saying that they have 12 different varieties. Cool! This is the first week so they're not AMAZING, but they're still pretty good. Looking forward to cherries for the next six weeks or so :) It will be really hard to not buy them from Jon's when they (inevitably) have them for 99c a pound... I might give in once or twice, we'll see.

In the meanwhile, I'm still calling the experiment a success financially, it's still very close, maybe slightly more, than I spend on average at Jon's. But the quality is incomparable, it all tastes so much better, and i don't have to worry about eating chemicals or supporting large nasty companies.

2 comments:

foodie1 said...

I gotta' have some of those cherries!!!!!!!!!!

Larah said...

You have me very curious about this Green Garlic.
Love cucumbers & sugar snap peas... these organic ones look so very tempting!!

Great job.