[StormPrepper]

Actually, farmer’s markets offer no bargains.

Great post! Spot on. Farmer's markets are not cheap. Makes you wonder what they think of local growers? They think that's discount food or something??

The only guarantee you might have is that it might be fresher and therefore better tasting than you could get at the grocery store. But cheaper!? Nooooo!

You have no guarantee that the grower didn't get their fertilizer from some feed lot that fed their animals antibiotics, or hormones just like the big growers. Or what insecticides were used, or whatever.

The farmer's market I go to every day is in my backyard. I've been canning my own veggies all summer. :)

[Starboard]

Farmer’s markets are not cheap.

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The “farmers” who sell their produce (and other assorted goods) have taken note of the people who habituate these markets. Like any other business, they know their customers, and it is not lost on them that most of the shoppers are middle to upper class people with money to indulge themselves on products that are more pricey than what is in the local supermarkets. Such customers don’t mind spending more, so the “farmers” quickly learn what price points they can get away with. Just last week we were at a farmers market last week and some guy wanted $2 for a single average size tomato. (No sale!)

Its no unlike Starbucks that charges high prices for coffee and gets away with it because their affluent customers don’t mind paying up for the Starbucks cache and “experience”. It make them feel special.