| Local, Great Tasting Healthy Food, and Good for | | | | items. Smell, touch (gently) and taste.o Allow time; |
| the Environment! Certified farmers' markets | | | | meander. It's great family fun!o Bring cash. Credit |
| enable certified farmers to sell seasonal, often | | | | card acceptance is rare. So are ATM machines.o |
| organic, only local grown and raised produce and | | | | Buy something new occasionally. Ask a friend, the |
| food products. Typically, products sold must be | | | | person next to you or the producer to give you |
| produced by the producer upon the producer's | | | | some ideas on how to use it.o Get the kids |
| land. | | | | involved. Let them choose and buy produce they |
| What's In It For You and Me? | | | | will eat. It will help make them responsible for |
| Locally produced food is fresher, tastes better | | | | eating fruits and vegetables.o Take a cloth bag. |
| and is environmentally friendly- it dramatically | | | | It's sustainable and environmentally friendly.o Bring |
| reduces the energy cost to get the food to the | | | | a friend. Turn someone else on to the food and |
| table. And farmers' markets are flush with always | | | | community spirit at the Farmers' Market.o Arrive |
| local, organic foods which use neither fertilizers nor | | | | early for selection and the opportunity to chat |
| pesticides which together account for more than | | | | with the producer. You'll find parking too!o Arriving |
| 1/3 of the energy used to make food. | | | | late is better than not arriving. Prices may be |
| Then there's the health benefit of organic food. | | | | better too! |
| Not that organic food is, in itself, necessarily | | | | "The farmers market is quickly emerging as the |
| healthier than other food but that the absence of | | | | new public square in this country. At the farmers |
| pesticides and insecticides makes it a better | | | | market country meets city. Children are |
| choice. Today, the EPA considers 60% of all | | | | introduced to where our food comes from. People |
| herbicides, 90% of all fungicides, and 30% of all | | | | politic. They have petitions. They schmooze. It's |
| insecticides as potentially cancer-causing. | | | | an incredibly vibrant space. The farmers market |
| Farmers' Market Shopping Tipso Use the Market | | | | of CSA lets us reconnect through these plants, |
| as a place to plan your meal. Shop and eat | | | | animals and their farmers to the natural world. |
| "seasonally".o Use your senses to find the best | | | | We've always looked to food for that connection. |