[Otter74]

I love farmer’s markets but they ain’t cheap here. Most of the produce at markets here comes from SW Michigan or sometimes downstate; there’s a bit that comes from urban farms at certain markets. I will pay whatever it costs for peaches from Michigan when they’re in season. Other summer fruit, too. There is produce that I can’t find at the store at all, other produce that I can but is just better (celery, for instance - I won’t make my favorite summer celery salad with anything other than the dark, strong stuff I get at the market July - September, though I recently discovered Chinese celery is a pretty good substitute off-season.)

I was in the Dordogne for a week about five or six years ago for a week in the summer and was a bit shocked at how much cheaper prices were at markets there than at home. I guess I was expecting Parisian prices.