Who would have figured moving out of the big city would give me more options? In the city there was only one near by farmers market that was only open for a hand full of hours on Saturday morning. Now that I have moved back to the country, I live within walking distance of two wonderful and CHEAP fruit and vegetable markets.
Today I decided I needed to barbeque some corn, even though it was pouring outside. I picked up eight monster ears of corn, 5 pounds of lil’ baby potatoes, and a big honkin’ zucchini for 5 bucks. Then I stopped into the other market and bought a pound of fresh blueberries, a loaf of freshy baked brown bread, a bunch of bananas, a few bulbs of fresh garlic, and four giant tomatoes for 10 bucks! 15 dollars and I can feed an army.
I absolutely love being a vegetarian. Everything you eat is so clean and fresh. There is no need to worry about foodborne illnesses such as salmonella, and E. coli. Not only that, but you are helping save the world living meat-free, especially if you support your local markets and keep produce transportation to a minimum. Livestock production is an absolute earth killer. Eat your beets and carrots!
-Mr. SoVeg
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I love this post b/c I moved from an extremely rural area to a big midAtlantic city, (and now I live in a midAtlantic suburb that is supposed to be a city)
The farmer’s markets are not great and a lot of the produce seems like its from far away, not to mention the timing is at a time I can’t get there, only SUV driving, non-working stay at home women who crawl all over this city have time to get there.
ANYWAY, when I go “home” to visit my family we can get fresh, huge, and even organic vegetables grown w/in 10 miles of our house every day of the week until winter hits. Hurray for farm stands - even better than the farmer’s market! I know where food is coming from, it tastes great, and the vegetarian lifestyle becomes even healthier and more delicious when I’m at home.