You Know Farmers' Markets Are Trendy When...
They inspire a whole line of toys available through the Pottery Barn catalog... including your very own play-reusable cloth shopping bag.
Not that I'm not all down with that – but maybe not in regards to a room full of playware at Pottery Barn prices. Certainly ads ammunition to the "farmers markets are elitist" backlash out there.
Meanwhile, I stopped at Whole Foods last night and had to go past rows and rows of tomatoes from Canada and – I think – even New Zealand (?) before I could find something grown locally. In the Mid-Atlantic in September. There was a measly little display of picked over, underripe tomatoes tucked away back near the fruit section (I know, tomatoes are considered fruits, but really). I bet it would have been easier, and tastier, to walk back outside and start knocking on people's doors to find a real tomato.
