Farmer's Market

$31.00 at the farmer's market:

5 heirloom tomatoes

A tub of dried fruit weighing about half a pound.  (Dried melon, apricot, etc.)

3 large organic yellow peaches
2 organic apples (one pink-lady and one "wine")
1 large bunch of the origional concord grades (full of flavor and seeds: remember, seeds indicate life)
2 organic persimmons (they taste somewhat like a cantaloupe crossed with a peach)
1 large organic bunch of sorrel (long sour leaves; like lettuce with a hint of lemon)
1 bunch of heirloom carrots (the sort that branch out in all directions)
1 loaf of home-made pesto bread (for my husband, obviously)
Half a gallon of fresh-made raw, delicious apple cider (the sample I drank sold me on the thought)

1 pint of organic strawberries

 The above is just to note how much you can save, and the quality you can experience when you shop at a farmer's market.  It's good for the community, for the economy, for the environment, for your body and for your wallet all at once!  You have nothing to lose!  Do you really have somewhere better to be early on a Saturday or Sunday morning?

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"I actually spend just as much now for both my wife and I as I used to spend on just myself. Going raw isn't expensive at all," says my husband.