Inflation: we just had an eye-opening experience in Boston yesterday

[Farmer-Rick]

27. Here in East TN it's always cheaper to shop at your local farmer's market

But look for ones that don't allow resales, because then you get fresh and not recycled produce from a grocery store whole seller looking to dump product. A lot of people will buy wholesale from the same producers that grocery stores use, then sell it cheap at unregulated markets because they have no overhead costs and they charge no tax by pretending they grow it themselves.

But give me a farmer raised market and you got my heart. You get very fresh vegetables and farm products never found in grocery stores like black Spanish radishes, all sorts of gourmet mushrooms, apple melons where you can eat the skins and salad turnips. Then they have lamb all year round with some of the best pork and black skinned chicken I have ever eaten, .

I use to sell those purple brown French Maran eggs, saffron and yellow raspberries for fall and early winter sales there at the local market.

I always love the new foods being introduced to the farmer's markets and the prices are always reasonable compared to grocery store bland foods.