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Have you ever heard of or seen a creation called a city Bus? You can buy big foldable grocery carts that fit easily into a bus. I have one. Mine has 2 big wheels, holds 80 lbs. of groceries, and I'm 3 blocks to a major grocery store and 2 blocks to Trader Joe's.
Food deserts are very real. Many communities do not have great public transportation systems to provide convenient access to the one grocery store.
I have not seen one in 11 years in TX/OK. The city farmers market is a hoax. Muffins in zip locks, eggs 5/12, ...
Charleston SC has great markets downtown and in most of the communities. The vendors are some hipsters giving us some home made pasta with some fancy butter but they also include many of our most beloved local farms that have been providing our communities with seasonal produce for years.
Those same farmers may have roadside stands near their farms as well but no need to drive 45 minutes to get to them when they are there at my weekly market selling me fresh butter beans, okra, you name it they got it...that is five minutes from my house.
I usually stop in at the dock for some local catch. My fish monger has expanded and may have product not found off the South Carolina coast but he works with fisherman all along the coast to make sure we get the freshest product.
You don't go to farmer markets for locally grown. Go drive the country roads..buy off the back of a truck or a farmstand.
Around here in VT, some farms have their own farm stands closer in to the more populated areas. Plus most nearby farmers sell at the farmers markets. They get a lot more customers by coming in from the boonies to sell where there are more people. I would have to spend a lot of gas to go looking for roadside farmstands.
The Amish have two markets within 15 minutes of my house. They grow all that they sell. They are cheaper than the farmer's market because most selling at the farmer's market, buy from the Amish. My wife ran the local farmer's market for 5 years as a volunteer.
The Amish have two markets within 15 minutes of my house. They grow all that they sell. They are cheaper than the farmer's market because most selling at the farmer's market, buy from the Amish. My wife ran the local farmer's market for 5 years as a volunteer.
I once lived near an Amish market. The best, freshest food ever. And free of fertilizer chemicals and hormones. Their chicken actually tasted cleaner than supermarket chicken.
I have not seen one in 11 years in TX/OK. The city farmers market is a hoax. Muffins in zip locks, eggs 5/12, ...
What are you talking about? My town for years has held a farmers market every Sat. and on Wed, too, during the warmer months. As I recall out in the country, farmers may sell watermelons and other stuff from the back of their pickups at the corner of Highway 18 and 51.
What are you talking about? My town for years has held a farmers market every Sat. and on Wed, too, during the warmer months. As I recall out in the country, farmers may sell watermelons and other stuff from the back of their pickups at the corner of Highway 18 and 51.
I've gotten some of the best fruit off the back of a truck as well as ears of corn when I lived in Texas.
Now in SC I've gotten watermelon,strawberries and peaches off the back of a truck.
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