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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends tell me that I should go to farmer market to get fruit since I get strawberries, blueberries and apples every single week at giant/Safeway.

They say it is organic and healthier for my kids. Farmer market mean the farm pick your own (eg butler or homestead) or go to those Saturday farm market eg Saturday kentland or Saturday at Rockville town center market?

Do those fruit stay longer, more fresh and more healthier or taste better from farmer market? Are they similar prices?[/quote]

So the farmer markets produce is not selected for long shelf life. Let use peaches as an example. A commercial orchard will grow one or two types of peaches. They will be ripe during a two week period. These varieties of peaches will have long shelve life but they will not taste great. These peaches have been developed to be shipped and need a long shelve life. Same with tomatoes.

The farmer who grow just for farmers markets will have a variety of peaches all selected for taste and harvest times. They will have a bunch of varieties that come in at different times of the year. So the peaches you get early in the year are different from the ones later in the year. This will apply to most of the berries. They also will tent their crops to extend the year.

The fruit will not have an extended shelve life, will taste better(tomatoes, fruit, melons, broccoli and cauliflower are a lot better), definitely fresher. Healthier who knows. You tend to eat more if it is fresh and taste better. You will have to buy around the seasons ie no blueberries in January. The supermarket will have them but they are from Chile. [/quote]

+1 Just to add if you find a stand alone market on a farm that’s open year round they often get deliveries like a supermarket so you will get fruit in winter, albeit more limited. They tend to source differently than supermarket though and seems they utilize smaller vendors so quality remains high. In winter I can get 5+ apple varieties, lemons, limes, bananas, cranberries, pomegranate, blueberries, oranges, nectarines, strawberries usually in late February, probably a few other things on a rotating basis just depends what they get in that week. It’s enough that I still rarely need to utilize a grocery store for fruit. There are a few weeks in January/February that are kind of bare but I can live with it or grab something at the grocery store that week.[/quote]

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