Summer’s here and farmers markets are open all across the country — even in Minnesota, I hear.* I’ve written before about how fabulous farmers markets are for kids — my son will eat anything a farmer offers him to sample, especially if it comes on a toothpick. Earlier this week we went to the Crystal City FreshFarm Market (Tuesdays, 3-7pm) after school, and after sampling our way from end to end stopped to get frozen yogurt from the Sweetgreen truck. One of the boy’s teachers spotted us in line and called him out for having dessert before dinner, to which he replied, “Actually, I already ate dinner at the market!” (He had quite a balanced meal, really — beef jerky, cheeses (though he declared the ashed-goat log was “weird”), breads, lots of cherries, berries and apple slices, and apple cider.)
There’s nothing I love more than a good local food-social media collaboration, so I have to share this summer promotion that landed in my inbox: When you check in to a farmers market on Gowalla this summer, Frigidaire will donate $1 to Save the Children‘s Kids’ Cooking Academy Summer Session. To trigger another $1 donation and enter for a chance to win a new Frigidaire Gallery® French Door Refrigerator, you can make a commitment to eat fresh at www.maketimeforchange.com. (Enter daily until September 20.)
Do you follow your local farmers market on Facebook or Twitter? It’s a great way to get the scoop on what’s fresh each week. Local peeps, you can follow @FreshFarmMktsDC, @DelRayFarmMkt and the West End Market (@knerq) on Twitter. And of course, find us @foodietots.
P.S. Pictured above are the first Virginia peaches of the season! Courtesy of Westmoreland Berry Farms at the McLean Farmers Market (Fridays, 8am-noon). Look for bicolor corn, raspberries, blueberries, peppers, summer squash, tomatoes, okra and much more at the markets this weekend.
* Our dear friends moved to Minnesota several years ago. The boy has it in his head that Minnesota is practically at the North Pole, so he’s always talking about how they have “snow that never melts” there. In fact, just yesterday I heard the following in the car: “When you made me be born, you didn’t just have a normal human baby, you had me with T-Rex vision! I can see all the way to the North Pole! And even Minnesota!”
Disclosure: As part of the Foodbuzz Publisher Program I received a stipend from Frigidaire for writing about this promotion. As always, the opinions expressed in this post are my own.
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2 Monique // Jul 29, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Aside from free samples, the freshness of the produce in a Farm market is really the best thing we can provide to our children.
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3 suzane // Sep 5, 2011 at 4:10 am
i love buying foods at farmers market, it’s the freshness of the products that i am after to!
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