Saturday, August 2, 2008

our morning at the farmers market

early this spring i made a commitment to myself that i would try going to the Farmer's Market weekly (or at least every other week) to buy all of our families fruits and vegetables. here it is already AUGUST and today was the first day i wrangled the kids in the car and met my mom at the Burlington County Farmer's Market.

this summer i've been reading (slowly but surly) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingslover and so far it's great but it's definitely kicking my butt in the "buy & eat local food" realm of life. so we went and it was nice, small but nice. we sampled some homemade salsa the blueberry flavor was my favorite. Mayden did not exactly appreciate the salsa as much as i did given after her bite she proceeded to spit it out in a napkin... hello embarrassing!! i bought some blueberries, peaches, watermelon & my mom treated me to a bar of lavender vanilla honey soap. one stand had the most amazing (yet pricey) blackberries and i just might go back to get some next week. oh and perhaps i'll find room in the budget for a pie too :o) i'm going to try Columbus Farmer's Market soon as it's a bit closer to us. it will be fun to compare the two.

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