What Does $5 Buy?

Some say farmers' markets are more expensive than supermarkets. Are they?

Check out what we found. Each of the pictures below shows what you can get for just $5 at the EPA Community Farmers' Market. Many of the items are organic, but some are not. All come from family farmers who sell their produce every Saturday at our market.

And if you pay with EBT/food stamps and/or WIC, or are age 60 or over, you could get this food for free! Learn about EPA Fresh Checks by clicking here.

	All organic: two roma tomatoes, a handful of greenbeans, one ear of corn, one bunch of rainbow chard, one zucchini, two squash, and two onions. Grown less than 100 miles away by Tu Universo Organic Farms, a new small farm founded by a first-generation immigrant family.
	Three overflowing baskets of sweet Albion strawberries. Only $5! Grown by Jose Reynoso, no more than 75 miles away, who sells these delicious berries himself every Saturday afternoon.
	One bunch of collard greens, one large eggplant, one bunch of green onions, one bunch of long greenbeans, one bushel of fresh Thai chilis, and one onion. All grown by Chong Vang, a small family farmer in our state's central valley--another grower that sells the vegetables she grows herself at our market.
	One plum, two white peaches, one yellow peach, one white nectarine and one Indian peach. These things are huge! Grown by Transito Zamudio, an immigrant who worked for nearly 20 years for a large fruit farmer, but who just two years ago, started his own farm. He's at our market every Saturday!