Comments on: Valencia California Farmer's Market update

By: Ventura County Certified Farmers’ Market

Ventura County Certified Farmers’ Market — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:46:11 +0000

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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.