Marketing Tips For Your Farmers Market Display
2)A greenhouse. This is a cheap and environmentally friendly way to grow your own vegetables. A greenhouse needn't be expensive to build. If you have children what better, and more fun, way to show them the importance of eating healthy, locally produced vegetables. If you don't much about gardening then a search through the web will give you all the information and tips you could possibly need.
1-Get the best ingredients possible. If you have the ability to obtain locally grown food in season-use it! It will be fresher and hold more natural flavor than a food that has had to travel, or is being produced out of season. Generally it will be less expensive as well. If that's not an option, frozen veggies are generally more flavorful than canned. Exceptions would be canned beans-which are way more convienent than dried beans, and personally I like canned artichokes.
The largest open-air farmers' market in the GTA is the Square One Farmers' Market located in Mississauga in the Square One parking lot. With over 150 participating farmers, you can find a variety of fruits, vegetables, homemade preserves, honey, maple syrup, baked goods, eggs, meats, and botanicals. Almost every vendor has samples of seasonal fruits and vegetables for people to try. Sampling is something the kids thoroughly enjoy and is a great way to introduce them to new flavours. While the kids may be picky eaters at home, at the farmers' market they try everything!
Eat less meat. It takes more money and energy to produce meat than it does to produce crops. If you're a hardcore carnivore, you don't need to cut meat out of your diet all together; it's just easier to eat less meat in the summer summer since the local produce is so fresh. Try to make your dinner meat-free for one night a week this summer. Grill local vegetables without the chicken this week.
Once all your veggies are in the ground get down to the local park or wilderness area and collect a couple of garbage sacks of forest debris. This could be dead leaves, tiny pieces of bark or you could even use grass clippings. This will be your mulch. When you get home cover the planting bed with the mulch which will protect the new plants and provide food for them later in the year as it rots down.
Okay, you can argue that you have to go to the store anyway or the farmer's market provides healthier vegetables without the physical work. Both points are very valid and I'm not condemning either one. I go to both places myself and certainly encourage you to support your local local market. After all you would need a pretty good sized garden to supply all your vegetable needs.
Restaurant food, fast food, and even most of the foods you buy at your local supermarket are filled with chemicals and junk that is just not healthy. And this can cause all kinds of problems to your digestive system.
When: Eat regular meals and try to stay away from "traditional" snack foods (These are usually loaded with chemicals). There are tasty, healthy alternatives.
