A great way to get high quality veggies for cheap

[Jenni_Feathers]

This was a story on a local news station and I though that I'd share it, its about farmer's markets, and how they are a great way to get the same veggies as at your supermarket, but for a better price. I thought it might help fellow pig owners trying to save some money. I can't link the video directly because it won't give me the url bar to link it, click on this link, and then in the box under where it says contact 2 and has the guy's face, it says sidebar, in the sidebar box, click the video, and there ya go. Here's the link MyFox St. Louis | Contact 2 - Farmer's Market

Also, sorry if this is in the wrong place, I wasn't sure if I should put it here or in Diet and Nutrition.

[Justin]

If there is an Asian market, especially a Chinese market, that could be the best place to buy vegetables.
One in my area sells really big and heavy leafy lettuce at 50c/head. They often have sales going on at 25c/head.

[gooberific]

That's funny (as in weird, not haha) -- when we lived in St. Charles, we went downtown to the big farmers' market... and found it all horribly overpriced on veggies, and relatively cheap on meat... but the meat LOOKED cheap, too. It might've been just that it's sort of a tourist trap.

Out here in AZ, though, we do go to the rancher market. It's conveniently around the corner from my parents' house, and we pass it once or twice a week anyway.

For anyone local, I go to Superstition Ranch Market near Meridian and Main/Apache Trail on the way into Apache Junction.

At first, I was shocked that they were out of romaine. Another customer told me that one of the guys went to go get more. There were four of us waiting for it. He put one pile up on the shelf and then walked away with a shopping cart full of it. Come to find out, one customer only needed two and it was for a dinner party, one needed 20 heads for her tortoises for the week, and the other person and I both needed 3 for guinea pigs... We told him he was just going to have to come back.

Their usual price for romaine lettuce is 3 for $1. Cucumbers and zucchini were 5 for $1, green peppers were 2 for $1, and yellow, orange and red bell peppers were 4 for $1. Their fruits were also looking good and inexpensive. They typically have their corn on sale husk and all, and we got seedless watermelon for 6 cents a pound!

Definitely beats grocery store prices, that's for sure!

[cavy-cool-crazy]

I wish the same was true here in UK. I spent £10 at the farmers market last week, and got less than half the produce I do from supermarkets.