[Sca-cooks] New Topic - Farmer's Market vs Chain Grocery

[eirenetz at comcast.net]

As I'm in Montgomery Alabama this week, and I have a car, I'd be interested in any Farmer's Markets in the area. My hotel hasn't got a stove, so no cooking, per se, but if I could get something other than resturaunt or supermarket food for the weekend, I'd be delighted. I've considered driving down to the Gulf this weekend; there's an event within a reasonable distance, but I can't screw up my courage to put on SCA clothes in this heat and humidity. (Besides, I didn't bring anything other than the kirtle that I'm supposed to be mending, and some brocade that needs to become a gown before I head home in a week.) 

Maybe if there are markets on I-65 south of Montgomery.....? Recommendations?

Eirene
Missing Cherry Creek Farmer's Market in **dry** Denver this weekend


> The Farmer's Market in Raleigh, NC tends to have good prices on
> things, and a lot of it is stuff people actually grow (esp May-Sept).
> 
> I'd gone to Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend and hunted for peaches
> all the way up I-85 and couldn't find any good ones. Wednesday that
> week, went to the farmer's market and got incredibly good, sweet, wet
> peaches, strawberries, spring onions and radishes all picked that
> morning, crusty bread 2 hours out of the oven and goat cheese from
> goats I'd met last December.
> 
> Everything was delicious, and comperable in price to the grocery
> stores (better on the strawberries and peaches which were being
> trucked from California).
> 
> Then again, North Carolina is a very agriculturally rich state, and
> I'd like to keep it that way.
> 
> And man, crawfish day is *not* to be missed $5/lb cooked crawfish with
> a place to sit and eat 'em. *Good* stuff. Next year I'm going to go
> buy bread and veggies *then* go get de mud bugs!
> 
> The Durham County and the Carborro City Markets are nice in that
> *everything* at the market has been grown, baked or made within 70
> miles of the market. You'll pay a bit more, but you're supporting the
> *very* local economy, and you'll make friends if you're a regular.
> 
> -Irmgart
> 
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