Bring Cash
Ones, fives, tens, and quarters. The farmers will love you, and you’ll shop faster! Each year, more stands take credit cards, but they tend to be the ones with higher priced items like meat and specialty foods.
Bring Bags and Containers
Also, bring what you’ll need to tote your fresh food home. For example, I bring plastic containers for berries and cherry tomatoes. It ensures they arrive home in perfect condition.
Remember, a local farmer doesn’t grow and pick fruit and vegetables to make them perfect for shipping, they grow and pick them to make them perfectly delicious. You also save the farm the expense of the bags and baskets and help the environment.
Keep it Cold
Finally, bring an ice pack or a small cooler. It can hold all your shopping or just perishables like meat, fish, cheese, and eggs.
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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Photography: © 2013 Penny & Ed Cherubino