Do you think growing your own vegetables is better than buying at a Farmer's Market?Why?

Question

why?

Answer 1

Try growing in your own garden and then maybe supplementing with stuff from a Farmer's market. Buying at a Farmer's Market where local growers sell is good because it's better than buying at the store and you can ask the people how they grew it, what chemicals they used, etc.

Answer 2

yes on the items that you eat alot of, and if you have the room, I grow heirloom tomatoes because they taste soo much better, and give away extras, because I am trying to convert them to organic heirlooms but some things I dont eat enough of to waste the space, like acorn squash I eat them..but not enough, so I have found that trading with other gardeners works great. I also frequent farmers markets but know that sometimes people buy regular store stuff and sell there, and that you dont know how the stuff was grown unless you know the farmer, stop and chat at the stalls, visit...which is one of the best things involved in farmers markets, getting out and meeting the people who grow your food, and seeing people face to face. Frequent those that express your same beliefs, if organic or not, and have fun..a trip to the farmers market should be an adventure..not just a trip thru the store aisles. Try something new, take kids, your own, your grands, or a neighbors and let them see that People are behind the foods they eat, let them pick a few things out...and teach them to try new things. these are benifits of farmers markets

Answer 3

Well for starters you can grow organic produce. Less chemical in your food makes for a happier body. You can also do it at a fraction of the cost of buying at a Farmer Market, if you have the resorces set up.
But if you can not get your own garden and you can not have a little green house I say that a farmer market is the way to go! The produce can be negotiated if you buy in bulk and you know that it is fresh, unlike at a grocery store. You can also talk to the farmer and ask what types of sprays he uses.

If I had a choice, I would do home grown first, then farmer market, then local produce store, then grocery store.

Answer 4

If you don't have room for a garden, then a Farmer's Market is a much better place to buy vegetables than at a grocery store, as grocery store fruits and vegetables are often coated in waxes or chemicals to keep them fresher or looking fresher for long periods. They are also far fresher as they haven't been shipped all over the place, kept in warehouses and handled by dozens of people.

Growing a garden gives you total control over what is put on the foods you eat. Furthermore, you have the pleasure of gardening, which can be soothing and relaxing.

Answer 5

Yes because who knows what types of chemicals are used when growing vegetables you buy from other people. The vegetables at my local Kroger are so high so I think if people had their own gardens then these prices would reduce because they'd have so many vegetables going bad. Plus the world might get so bad with inflation soon enough that this would be a way for families to save money so why not.

Answer 6

If you have the room to grow vegetables, do it! Even when I had no "yard" I had tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, etc in pots on my deck. My children love to start the seeds indoors and then transplant them into the garden. They are more willing to eat vegetables than most of their friends. You can grow your own with no chemicals and no pesticides and be certain of what your family eats. By all means if you have a farmer's market in your area, shop there for what you don't grow. You will be buying locally without the need for emissions from trucks travelling thousands of miles to your nearest grocery store!

Answer 7

because then you know for sure what is in them

Organic farming is much more expensive than farming with chemicals

this only requires a pick up truck and one works with kilos of chemicals ,

Organic farming means mulching and composting
and one works with many tons of material ,and much more labor intensive and you use trucks and tractors and trailors.all of which cost more money.

Organic pest control is more complicated ,it means growing specific plants and the use of animals or specific insects .

So a devious farmer will use chemicals or leave out the composting but sells under the banner of Organic produce to get to the high price ,

Do you go to the farms and fields ,where your vegetables come from .??

At home you can grow vegetables intensively and quite cheaply using your own wastes and by products and plant big leaved plants for mulching .

Permaculture is a concept that includes all of this as well as ,waterharvesting,biodiversity,soil manegement ,aquaculture, and much more

Permaculture is a world recognised earth friendly movement and tends to include people that practice the concept and are active in the field.

the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.
and is the best all round book you can get,on Environmental design,.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail])

some other writers that are on the internet are
david Holmgren
Larry Santoyo
Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,
One-Straw Revolution
The Road Back to Nature
The Natural Way of Farming
http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson
and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is
Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]
[e-mail]
http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....
http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo... Source(s) I am a permaculture consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government of Guerrero in Mexico

rbyderule yahoo 360, which has some stuff in English as well as this spaces
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Answer 8

Well one you get to grow whatever you want that farmers in your area might not want to grow, or might sell you at a higher price. It'll be cheaper in the *long run* to grow it yourself. Especially if you go *organic*.

Also that saves you money in commuting to the Farmers market for those items. Now unless you have a farm you will still have to go to the farmers market for things, but this will cut down on some things ;-)

I like fruit, so personally I'd do a green house, I'm tired of paying outrageous prices on my fav fruits even if they are local. They've gotten too expensive :(

Answer 9

Yes it is. The greatest concern is that with vegetables at Farmer's Markets as well as Grocery stores is that you can never really be sure what chemicals are used to fertilize the ground as well as kill insects. When all produce that goes to the local grocery stores goes through a processing plant where they can be chemically enhanced. Growing your own you know exactly what chemicals and pesticides if any were used.

Answer 10

Yes Growing at home is better. It promotes strong work ethics and you can make sure that your produce is safe and pesticide free. Local Farmers can use Fertilizers and Pesticides. Most Fertilizer is made with cow poop and therefore has already released alot of methane into the Air. Which is a Greenhouse gas related to Global warming. Also when done by hand at home you are reducing your carbon Footprint by not using Tractors, Triucks, and other machines that rely on Gas or diesel creating smog.