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Farmers Markets & Eating Local
Farmers Markets & Eating Local
Learn more about shopping Seattle's farmers markets and eating locally! Our experts are on hand to answer your questions about where to get the best produce, what time of year is best to buy what, how to get involved in your neighborhood market, and more! Have a question about the wonderful selection of food available right outside your door? Ask our experts now!
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Helsing Junction Farm out of Rochester http://www.helsingfarmcsa.com/index.php Their Capitol Hill drop is on Thursdays at 10th & Miller or y... more »
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Beans beans beans! There are great quality local beans at farmer's markets. You can make burritos, tacos, baked beans, hummus, or my favorite -... more » -
FeaturedI love vegetables and I like to cook and experiment, but I also get into a rut sometimes of making the same things over and over. A few things that... more »
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FeaturedHi Megan, How wonderful you are planning to eat only local foods for a month. We help customers with this all the time. I suggest visiting our... more »
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moderatorOxbow Farm is really great. We've used them for years. The pick up is at the Friday Madison Valley farmer's market. http://www.oxbow.org more » -
FeaturedI can also recommend La Boucherie on Vashon Island. The food is excellent and a day trip to Vashon is always a great experience. You can also buy... more »
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The market managers absolutely can (and should) kick him out of the market. The fact that they are aware of the issue and haven't already done so p... more »
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I got great advice on this question a while back http://questionland.com/questions/4668-i-want-to-join-a-csa-has-anyone-had-a-good-experience-with-... more » -
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i've done full circle for the past three years. always good times and good food. http://fullcirclefarm.com/index.html?fbid=eqs1uyLd8Sb 3 p... more » -
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FeaturedHi Jenna, Eat Local is a pick up point for Tiny's Organic at our Queen Anne store and our Burien store. I personally get a Tinys bag and think ... more »
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FeaturedYou might also try directly contacting the organizers or organizing body of this market and tell them what happened. In King County and in fact t... more »
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I'm with the other commenters, it blows my mind that the farmers market doesn't have a policy in place to kick out crappy vendors. But, yeah, take... more »
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Where are you? I don't even know of a friday farmers market in Seattle. more » -
Holy Mackerel! That sounds like one outspoken crabby old fishwife - (perhaps you're secretly a french king...?) * The guy is truly being a dish... more »
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Take, but keep calling the guy out every weekend if the mislabeling persists. Perhaps you could make a cottage industry out of collecting $20 gift... more »
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I'm a big fan of Sea Breeze Farm at the Ballard Farmers Market, who also run a restaurant called La Boucherie near (not technically 'on') their far... more » -
You should take it. If you don't want it you can give it to me :) That is absolutely RIDICULOUS though. I'm shocked that there isn't some sort... more » -
Because they're farmers markets, not craft fairs. I'm the first one to say I prefer the mixed markets, like Ballard, that have food producers AN... more » -
Waitwaitwait, he was selling something that was labeled as something else... in a fish market? Ohdeargodinheaven please tell me you swooped on the... more » -
Answer to Can you recommend any locally made tofu?
I recommend Than Son Tofu on 12th between Fir and Yesler. I've been buying there periodically for seven years. more » - more answers in Farmers Markets & Eating Local »
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