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How to Save On Produce at The Farmers Market

August 16, 2010

The best way to save on produce, IMO, is to patronize the local farmers market (or grow your own ). I felt so thankful every time we visit the Sacramento Farmers Market. The hustle and bustle, sights and sounds really jazz me up. Flowers, children, old and young, everyone busy and happy. The best thing? [...]

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Sacramento Farmers Market, Fruit Prices 3/22

March 22, 2010

Every time I went to the Sacramento Farmers Market I noticed something different, which didn’t mean they weren’t there before, it just means that there are so many stands that I can’t notice them all at one trip! And we’ve been there at least once a month for the past few years now. I learned [...]

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Savings from the Farmers Market- Bless the California Bounty

November 29, 2009

Over 20 lbs of persimmons, pomegranates and satsuma mandarin oranges: $25 Opportunity to chat with growers: Priceless (Prices from the Sacramento Farmers Market) Apples: Organic $2/lb, Conventional from Apple Hill Patrick’s Garden $1/lb Pomegranates: $1 – $1.5 /lb, from Bradburn Farm in Madera, CA. I asked the grower why the price difference, and he said [...]

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Sacramento Farmers Market Fall Bounty ($4/flat Organic Eggs)

October 25, 2009

This week is P&P (pear and persimmon) week. As always, the fabulous Sacramento Sunday Farmers Market under the freeway is packed. There is a reason why major Sacramento chefs, such as Patrick Mulvaney, are regulars. I felt that I could keep writing about this place – so many vendors and such variety! See a previous [...]

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Sacramento (under the freeway) Farmers Market

September 15, 2009

Location: huge parking space under the freeway, on 8th and W St. Time: From 8AM to Noon Open all year, every Sundays Someday there will be a website for it, just like the hugely popular Davis Farmers Market. Before I became a fan of the Sacramento Farmers Market (under the freeway), when we first moved [...]

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