Comments on: Sunday, June 7th – Chattanooga Market Features Home & Garden http://www.chattanoogamarket.com/2009/06/sunday-june-7th-chattanooga-market-features-home-garden/ fresh produce, local crafts & live music Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: chris http://www.chattanoogamarket.com/2009/06/sunday-june-7th-chattanooga-market-features-home-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-250 chris Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:36:30 +0000 http://www.chattanoogamarket.com/?p=2401#comment-250 The early visitor gets the produce! We had a full load of farmers, overflowing with produce, at the start of the day. Due to strong consumer demand, they simply sold everything. By late in the afternoon, several of our farms are simply sold and gone. We're not a mega-mart, with deep-freeze storage; what is picked in the morning is sold at the Market within hours -- nothing lingers in storage for days/weeks/months. This is the reason why local produce is so much tastier, healthier -- and disappears quickly once offered for sale to the public. Next week will begin to see heirloom tomatoes, and sweet corn will be arriving in about another week. [PS - and being the largest produce-only Market in the region, we feel our variety and assortment of craftspeople is quite perfect.] The early visitor gets the produce! We had a full load of farmers, overflowing with produce, at the start of the day. Due to strong consumer demand, they simply sold everything. By late in the afternoon, several of our farms are simply sold and gone.

We’re not a mega-mart, with deep-freeze storage; what is picked in the morning is sold at the Market within hours — nothing lingers in storage for days/weeks/months. This is the reason why local produce is so much tastier, healthier — and disappears quickly once offered for sale to the public.

Next week will begin to see heirloom tomatoes, and sweet corn will be arriving in about another week.

[PS - and being the largest produce-only Market in the region, we feel our variety and assortment of craftspeople is quite perfect.]

]]> By: Emily http://www.chattanoogamarket.com/2009/06/sunday-june-7th-chattanooga-market-features-home-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Emily Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:43:04 +0000 http://www.chattanoogamarket.com/?p=2401#comment-249 Is there any way that you can list on your site which vendors will be at the market each Sunday? It was very upsetting to drive down all the way from Soddy Daisy this afternoon, only to find maybe three vendors with VERY little fresh produce, and a ridiculous amount of craftspeople. Is there any way that you can list on your site which vendors will be at the market each Sunday? It was very upsetting to drive down all the way from Soddy Daisy this afternoon, only to find maybe three vendors with VERY little fresh produce, and a ridiculous amount of craftspeople.

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