[ealgeone]

Nope....I well remember going to the local farmer’s market when I was a kid. Loved running around barefoot in the dirt while mom got fresh veggies.

[Clemenza]

When my mother was a child, farmers markets were still relatively popular in the urban northeast but even more so “in the country.” According to her when suburbanization took off in the 1950s and early 60s, these disappeared as everyone drove to the supermarket for all of their food needs. Moreover, most of the stuff that her mother bought at the markets was organic and from small farmers but wasn’t marketed as such.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

When I was a kid in the 60s, we’d drive out from Portland into the farm country around there and get a station wagon load of fruits and vegetables from the roadside stands and/or U-pick places. What didn’t get eaten fresh was canned.

That’s not an option around here (southern Arizona). We do a little container gardening, but it’s tough to keep stuff alive in the summers.