Are You Market Ready?

I love Farmers Market season.  One of my favorite summertime activities is gathering up the whole family and heading out to see what the local farmers, crafters and business folks have to offer!  I love to create meals based on the local fare, and I love to find one-of-a-kind treasures to bring home to add to my collection.  This is a lifelong love of mine and we always go prepared with cash in hand and bags to fill.  

I suppose my passion for summertime markets began in my childhood, when my family would attend the market in Iowa City with our own homegrown sweet corn, sold out of the trunk of our Monte Carlo.  That memory makes me smile.  I wish I had a photo to go with it.  I think back to those days when we would go into the "city", and I imagine myself being a bit in awe of what we were doing.  I was a country kiddo, and going to town was always exciting.  These trips to town must have had quite an impact on me, as I remember I made for myself an imaginary friend who I'm sure came along, as she was always with me back then.  I named her "Sidy", and fondly remember linking that name to a dream of the place where there were lots of people, lots of diversity and lots to think and talk about.  To this day, I still get excited to go soak up the scene.  Part of the attraction is very much the people-watching, part of it is the diverse sights and sounds, and part of it is my desire to support the local economy by being an active member of it.

I am looking forward to attending as many markets as I can this coming summer.  I will have the luxury of visiting a couple of markets a week as a shopper, but on Sundays I will have the privilege of going back to my roots and working my own tent!  What a pleasure that will be!  Jeremiah and I have signed on to work the Breckenridge (Colorado) Sunday Market!  We will be bringing along a good selection of products from our very own shop, Natural Family Supplies!  We plan to offer cloth produce bags, classic string bags, Envirosax, To-Go Ware products and more.  These items will be so useful for market shoppers, and we hope to help educate folks about reusable options when food shopping! 

In honor of our upcoming summer "gig", I have added a "Farmers Market" section to our online store so that you can be prepared too!  For this weekend only, we will be offering a 15% discount on all products in our shop and we hope that you will take advantage of this discount to get yourself ready for my favorite time of year!

~*Use the code ECOFM to get your discount!*~

Did I mention that I just added string bags for market shopping in every color of the rainbow???