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Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 10:26 a.m.
Readers who were ambitious enough to plant a vegetable garden back in March are already enjoying home-grown tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and such. But unless they are sharing with friends and neighbors, the rest of us are out of luck ... except those who have discovered the Farmer's Market.
In Houma, across Tunnel Boulevard from Dumas Auditorium, just about every weekday, local farmers sell fresh produce from their gardens, including squash, potatoes, peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, cukes or whatever is in season.
"Fresh" is the operative word here. The farms which keep area groceries stocked year round with fruit and vegetables of all kinds are rarely located in Louisiana.
California, Florida and other vegetable-producing states are located far enough away that their products must be trucked in, arriving days after they are harvested.
The system has been remarkably efficient at delivering quality products, but for real, picked-this-morning, vine-ripened crops, sold by the fellow who picked them, you can hardly beat the Farmer's Market.
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