Fullerton Certified Farmers Market, Interview with a local farmer. Episode #52 The Face of Fullerton

[@meganweston3350]

I love these markets!! 😍

[@thefaceoffullerton3072]

There is a reason they are around everywhere! They are special.

[@paulreed1142]

On average, the prices seen here are higher than most grocery stores! Outrageous.

[@mrsantbrown]

It’s not a big chain grocery store it’s a farmers market that have people picking same day or within a few days the fruit last weeks and you get the one on one community interaction and support farmers and farmers markets and small business The quality is very high

[@thefaceoffullerton3072]

Thank you for commenting and watching our video. The prices are higher. Personally I find the quality makes up for it. The eggs I buy here are more money than the grocery story but the yokes are double size and the whites are not watery. They also have a 6 week counter life. I have noticed that I can also find a better deal if I buy the smaller size fruit. It is just as fresh and tasty. I picked up a bag of 5 smaller oranges for $1 this week. Thank you again for watching, opinions are always welcome here!

[@thefaceoffullerton3072]

@@mrsantbrown I agree with you. The interaction with the farmers is also one of my favorite parts. Jimmy has made me a much better cook!

[@zenkim6709]

Yes, farmer's markets aren't necessarily cheaper than supermarkets & grocery chains when it comes 2 produce prices -- but the price U pay @ checkout is merely the upfront cost. The vast majority of food crops in the US are grown by agricultural business corporations -- "agribusinesses" -- rather than small, independent family-owned farms. These agribusinesses wield enormous resources, & they've been using their size & clout 2 drive smaller farming operations out of the market *for decades*. What's more, agribusinesses almost exclusively use massive-scale industrial methods 2 grow crops, employing chemical fertilizers (which eventually cause soil depletion & land erosion, unlike natural fertilizers such as compost) & powerful insecticides (which kill all insects indiscriminately, including beneficial species such as honeybees & butterflies) which have been contributing 2 the further deterioration of the environment & the potential extinction of wildlife. As if that wasn't enuff, pound 4 pound the produce U get from a farmer's market is superior in nutritional value (& taste!) compared 2 what U would find @ your typical supermarket anyway. Many yrs ago, American astronomer & science popularizer Carl Sagan was asked by an interviewer why people should adopt ecologically-friendly renewable (now called "green") energy sources vs. our already well-established & cheaper fossil-fuel sources. Here, I would like 2 paraphrase Sagan's response -- after performing a certain substitution.... When we look beyond the upfront costs of both agribusiness & farm-raised food crops & take into account all the additional costs we *don't* see in the supermarket price tags vs. the prices @ a farmers' market -- when we factor in the environmental destruction due 2 the unrelenting use of chemical fertilizers in industrial agriculture, the undermining of our nutrition due 2 crops grown in depleted soil so barren that it would literally crumble like dust in a farmer's hand, the catastrophic endgame that must result from massive spraying of pesticides that kill all insects *including* the helpful species that pollinate all plants, plus the insidious form of chemical Russian Roulette we play every time we eat produce that contains residues of harmful chemical additives such as insecticides & Round Up weed killer (even if we wash our produce thouroughly!) ... well then, the *overall* cost of farm-raised produce is lower by far. The problem is that we don't do the accounting right.

[@thefaceoffullerton3072]

@@zenkim6709 thanks for this information!