And you thought Kroger and Walmart were your only options!If you have not or do not frequently attempt to buy all of your groceries at Farmers Market (the store - not to be confused with the Midtown Farmer's Market) please make an experiment of it. When the Midtown Farmer's Market ends every October, I try to only buy my food from the Farmer's Market store on CR 101, and I let the produce from this store dictate all of my meals. They really do have the best selection and BEST variety of local foo
ds. What I love about this place is the little hand-written signs that tell you what town or county the food came from. And seriously, the price is right at this place. I bought a buldging pint of local yellow cherry-sized tomatoes for $1.27 today. You can buy a mediocre pint of red cherry tomatoes right now at Kroger for $1.50 and they have been hauled in all the way from San Antonio, Texas. We're lucky, down here in the South, to have Texas near by, considering the wealth of fruits they produce, but according to google maps, from San Antonio to Oxford it's approx. a 12 hour and 16 minute drive. Oxford can't produce everything on their own of course, so I often buy produce from other Southern states as well, but I am most happy to support locally owned, small businesses like Farmers Market, located at 274 County Road 101, Oxford, MS 38655.
ds. What I love about this place is the little hand-written signs that tell you what town or county the food came from. And seriously, the price is right at this place. I bought a buldging pint of local yellow cherry-sized tomatoes for $1.27 today. You can buy a mediocre pint of red cherry tomatoes right now at Kroger for $1.50 and they have been hauled in all the way from San Antonio, Texas. We're lucky, down here in the South, to have Texas near by, considering the wealth of fruits they produce, but according to google maps, from San Antonio to Oxford it's approx. a 12 hour and 16 minute drive. Oxford can't produce everything on their own of course, so I often buy produce from other Southern states as well, but I am most happy to support locally owned, small businesses like Farmers Market, located at 274 County Road 101, Oxford, MS 38655.Check out these Japanese Persimmons grown in Houston, Mississippi, about an hour and a half drive away from Oxford.
While Oxford's Midtown Farmer's Market is over for the season, some of their lovely local goods are still available.
Zion Farms' beef, pork and chicken are available all year. Get on Ron Brandon's email list at zionfarms@gmail.com. Don't forget to get on the list for a holiday turkey.
For breads, get in touch with Frog's Pearl Station by emailing Rebecca at Dutch van Oostendorp at frogspearl@bellsouth.net or call 662-609-8394. Hearty winter breads and bagels will be availble. You can also special order, with delivery in the parking lot of the Turner Center on the Ole Miss campus.
Bost Farms should have squash, tomatoes and beans available for a while. Call 234-3425.
Fresh local honey is available from beekeeper Larry Carr, call 473-2506.
All natural, preservative-free breads from Otto and Annie Puttman at Loafing Around are available by emailing naturalpath@doctor.com or calling 281-0309. Get on their list for Christmas cookies!
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