Comments on: Valencia California Farmer's Market update

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:56:03 +0000

That's fantastic, Lynn. I guess I've been spoiled, as various fruits and vegetables have been available year round in our locale, but things change. I'd really like to hear more about what you're doing. :)

By: Lynn Cameron

Lynn Cameron — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:35:43 +0000

Well, it's three years later and the Farm Market I spoke of above is history now. The nearest small town of Saranac Lake, NY, is where I now must drive 30 mins. on Saturdays to buy farm-fresh produce. The farmers there almost always sell out and the prices on everything offered there are high enough to have gotten me searching for more direct farm-to-consumer contact. I was successful this Fall, and have saved, literally, 75% on the purchase of Winter storage items like carrots, squash, potatoes, onions by driving a couple hours.

This is my first month as coordinator for a local buying club for over 5000 regional NYState products – a new idea on the old food co-op plan in that it is all online ordering, automatic split-up of cases and billing of individual members. I like that the monthly minimum is reasonable; it's delivered and organized for pick-up by the local coordinators who charge (or not) for the service.
The online programming for this really convenient system that saves 30-40% on high quality to gourmet foods originate in California and have been expanding into other regions of the country. Wholeshare.com might have a supplier that works with their system set up in your own local area – I've found them to be really quick in answering inquiries.

Lynn

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:25:29 +0000

In the post above, there's a link to our article, "There's a Farmer's Market in Valencia, California!" … and that page has the farmersnet.com link:

http://farmernet.com/events/one-cfm?venue_id=620
where you can get some date and time information.

It also has a link to http://www.vccfarmersmarkets.com/ — the Ventura County Certified Farmers' Markets.

Enjoy!

By: Zvi Bieringer

Zvi Bieringer — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:18:01 +0000

Can anybody give me the location and dates of the farmers market in Valencia?

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By: George Vigil

George Vigil — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:13:16 +0000

I've been going every week since I found out about the Valencia Farmer's Market and have been picking up organic stawberries, blackberries, oranges, cucumbers, grapefruit and tomatoes. Anything I like as long as I know there are no man-made "treatments" on them. They all taste like how I remember from when I grew a garden as a child: rich, zesty, sweet --- the flavors are all vividly there. If I'm thristy, I peel an orange. I munch on blackberries --- they don't last long. We make great tossed salads with all sorts of veggies in them.

By: Lynn Cameron

Lynn Cameron — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:04:59 +0000

Diane, you describe your Farm Market almost well enough to make me want to relocate to California. I live very isolated in the middle of the North woods, and this is the first year of our local Farmer's Market. It's just 2.5 miles away by car (after a couple miles by boat first) in the quad of a small college, and I am gratified to see the vendors grow in number each Friday afternoon. Farmers are scarce as hen's teeth these days (2% of the population), and the market's organizers were not concerned about having enough customers but having enough produce to sell to them. The average age of a USA farmer is 65 so I'm not surprised that some don't have the time or energy to tote their precious produce to market. It's worth pondering just what our descendents will eat. Now, that's a topic for a disaster movie if I ever saw one. Lynn

By: Diane Vigil

Diane Vigil — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:05:21 +0000

That's terrific. I've never tasted strawberries like these — not tart, but very sweet. Same with the oranges. But I was surprised to see the photo of the mounds of avocadoes. Next time.