30 May Don’t forget about your local Farmers’ Market!
If you are looking for a more sustainable way to eat, engage in your community and boost your local economy, supporting your local farmers market can be a good first step.
The top three reasons to visit your local markets are for freshness, taste and access to local food. Another reason is that you get to know where your food is grown and who grew it.
Farmers' markets offer the opportunity to purchase fresh-picked, good-tasting, seasonal produce from the farmers who grow it. They are often picked at the peak of maturity only a day or even hours before they are sold at farmers’ markets. Once people taste what’s available at the farmers’ market they don’t want to go back to the taste they get from the supermarket!
Farmers markets are lots of fun! Farmers markets are also an important community social event. People run into friends and neighbors and talk, or meet new ones including farmers. So make time to visit your local Farmers Market! So bring the whole family if you can. It’s not only educational for your children but they will have a great time as well! There are usually lots of activities for them to get involved in.
We visit our local market, The Pflugerville Pfarmer's Market, which runs May 3-October 18 (every Tuesday from 3 p.m-7 p.m.). Last Tuesday, May 24th we had the pleasure of spending time with Chef Scott Crim. He gave us a few great demonstrations on how to get the most of the fresh local ingredients we could purchase there. He showed us that with a few creative ideas we could all whip up a not just an ordinary dish, but a healthy, delicious meal! A special thanks to Chef Scott Crim for your love and enthusiasm of cooking with local fresh products! For a great cooking experience with Chef Scott Crim, catch him at Faraday’s Kitchen Store www.faradayskitchenstore.com
Be sure to bring your own reusable bags to the market and reduce the use of plastic bags. So please support your local area Farmers’ Market. Don’t worry once your local area market you can visit Austin SFC Farmers’ Market which is year round! For more information visit www.sfcfarmersmarket.org
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