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Your groceries, straight from the farm
With an endless selection of organic -and mostly local- vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, roots, and herbs, Coconut Grove Farmers’ Market will make you feel proud of living in the Sunshine State.
Glasser Organic Farms, which dominates the farmers’ market, always has fresh, raw and organic ready-to-go vegetable pies, salads, sushi, pizza, hummus, pâtés and spreads, as well as more gourmet dishes like stuffed Portobello mushroom cups. Prices range between $4.95-$10. Get one of their fresh juice or coconut milk bottles for $2.50 to $4.25 ($9.50 for the family-size one).
But that’s not why you’ll keep coming to this market: they also have the best variety of nuts, seeds, grains, dried fruits and mushrooms, and prepared raw foods like flax seed crackers, granola bars, dressings, jams, olives and artichokes in oil, chickpea croquettes… and even 11 types of honey.
Don’t leave Glasser’s without a raw dessert, or take it to go: fruity cakes and pies, ice-creams, fruit salads, and brownies are just some of the treats you’ll find here.
Next to it is the raw food stand Lamoy’s Living Foods, where you can get a sample plate of five raw dishes, like curry pecan cuscus, raw Caesar salad, and a carrot, seaweed and beets salad, for $12. Like the main dishes, the dessert will change every week, but Lemoy (photographed below) will always have something for those with a sweet tooth (she had a raw raspberry pudding last time I was there).
Walk around and you’ll also find booths selling natural supplements and soaps.
If you go:
Coconut Grove Farmer’s Market
3300 Grand Ave.
Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursday, 17 September, 2009 at 8:07
And, sadly, that’s another farmer’s market (wait, do they get stuff from local farmers?) that I’ll never get to go because it’s on a Saturday.
We need the approach there is in Seattle: markets pretty much every day of the week in different areas of the greater city.
Hey, Jews wanna buy some produce, too.
Thursday, 17 September, 2009 at 11:15
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Tuesday, 6 October, 2009 at 5:47
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Friday, 9 October, 2009 at 12:52
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Friday, 9 October, 2009 at 13:07
Neat-o.