Posts Tagged ‘markets’
Market in Guanajuato Mexico
Travel offers opportunity to try foods you might normally not see in your local market. Wherever you go, visit the local grocery store, farmer’s market or street vendor. In Guanajuato, there’s a vast two level city market built with great style and flair. Navigate up the iron steps to the galleria on the top level where you can look down on the passing scene then stroll around to buy Mexican candied delicacies, cacao, hammocks, clothes and every type of food. On the streets around the market, small purveyors offer fruit at outdoor markets with prices marked on boards or called out by hawkers.
The delicate normal-sized strawberries sold during Spring carry stupendous taste. Nothing sold in el Norte comes close for flavor intensity.
Time to sign up for your fresh vegetables for the next growing season of 2013.
National database of CSA farmers
Local Harvest explains that “Over the last 20 years, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has become a popular way for consumers to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other farm products may be included. Interested consumers purchase a share (aka a “membership” or a “subscription”) and in return receive a box (bag, basket) of seasonal produce each week throughout the farming season.”
Here are links to maps and lists that specify locations of producers in the DC-MD-VA area.
Maryland Farmers Market listed by county
These folks are our food allies. Give them your business and talk to others about the issues local farmers face. Diminishing land near urban centers and water scarcity are just two of many challenges. Support local farmers and you’ll always have food growing nearby.
From garden to table.
No White Food 