EL, this would be the perfect assignment for your Sandbox friends.

Next Friday, publish a Farmers' Market Shopping/Vendor List. Sandboxers can post which market they will be visiting (to make sure there is D@L coverage at each one or, at least, as many as possible) then take the shopping list and price it at the various markets. Post the results.

It's like a Sandbox field trip.

The week after, Sandboxers can visit various liquor stores and price Maker's Mark, then the next week, meat markets and price bacon...

That'd be worth checking out. I haven't made it over to the Harbor East market yet, so I've no idea.

I just got back from the JFX market a little while ago. Stayed a long time this week as I met up with my sister and nephew and hung out. I really got a chance to look over all the craft vendors, and they truly are amazing- love the glass blowers and the cutting boards. I also got my dog Moby one of the martingale collars. As always, it was fun harassing Keiffer for some OJ and Nick the spice guy about where my dang file powder is!

Alas, I am not doing any major cooking this weekend, so I just got the basics for salad for the week, plus plums and peaches. Man can you tell it's the end of the season for peaches- none of them looked too good. But those peppers sure are pretty now- I picked up a bunch of multicolored ones along wth my jalapenos.

Maybe they figure that at the markets that don't weigh the produce, they are a little more generous with their eyeballed guesses?

Why don't we get volunteers to do this. Since we have Sandboxer's all over the area, we could all have the same shopping list and make purchases at different markets in the same week. Then we would just post our purchases and experiences.
I bet we could get it done.

I wish more vendors would weigh produce instead of forcing me to buy containers that contain more food than I need for our family of two.

We've scheduled a Sunday Market Meet-Up for September 14. Some details are on my blog, but more will follow. Click my name below for a link to my foodie blog.

The problem with all of us going to different markets is that we'll end up comparing apples and oranges. I'm willing to pay more for high quality stuff. If Robert I tells me that Waverly has peaches for $2.00, and Robert II says that Highlandtown has them for $3.00, it sounds like Waverly is the place to go. But, what if the peaches at Highlandtown were organic, heirloom peaches tended by virgins during the light of the full moon, hand picked by Albanian albinos and taste like Plato's perfect peach? Then the price difference isn't the important data about these peaches.

Harbor East more expensive...imagine that. Must be the proximity to Whole Paycheck.

Man, that would be one hell of a peach.

Rob in PCB Fla: Stay safe, I hope that Fay drops down in power before she hits Florida!

We got the making for salsa on Saturday - tomatoes, peppers - hot & mild, and peaches for some sweet notes.

And the lima beans and butter beans were in! Now don't turn your nose up. These are so good - nothing like canned. The lima's made it into a lovely bright green soup, which we'll have another time this week. The butter beans will be on the menu tonight.

They also had black-eyed peas, which I didn't get this week.

Thanks Susan!
So far, it looks like Fay will miss me. Which is fine with me.

Well here is a farmer checking in. We own One Straw Farm and attend the Harbor East Market, Waverly , Mill Valley Garden Center and 3 other markets. My prices are the same at all of my markets, Harbor East included.
We use containers instead of weighing items because of the added expense of a scale, and the time it takes to weigh each item. In addition, The scales must be approved by the Department of Weights and Measures. IT is much faster to put zucchini or tomatoes into a container than itis to weigh the produce for each customer. WE have considered selling produce by weight because we would make much better money on our produce, but the added time added to each sale didn't seem worth the extra money we would make.
Also we are happy to sell less than the container- just ask if you need a half container or one cucumber.theonly thing we will not do is sell a half a watermelon.