Sunday, August 4, 2013

Get thee to a farmers' market

because this is National Farmers' Market week.

Frankly I'm never quite sure what these designated days and weeks mean, and have thought from time to time about making a list of the ones I find most absurd.  But surely farmers' markets are anything but absurd, unless it is absurdly bountiful in this month of gardens and farms over run with good things.

Yesterday Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that 8,144 farmers markets are now listed in USDA's National Farmers Market Directoryup from about 5,000 in 2008.  Actually, they are up about 10% just in the last year.  Search for a market near you here:  
http://search.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/default.aspx

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