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| - Tempe Farmer's Market is rad. Their selection has grown immensely since today and when it had first opened. It's not a one-stop, get all your groceries for the week kind of place, but it works marvelously as a neighborhood market with a few necessities and a great variety of delicious fruits, vegetables, olives, pasta and frozen meat.
Goddamn am I glad this place opened. Prior to this, my closest convenient neighborhood market was Rollin's Market with its rotting bell peppers and frozen Banquet dinners. There's always Fry's or Safeway, but I like hitting up a small little market on the corner of my neighborhood and build a rapport with the employees and owners as part of establishing a community.
The dude who runs the place will sometimes thrown in a tomato or apple or lime in with your bag of groceries. Hey, free apple.
Not everything they have is permanent. Sometimes something new will be there, and the next week it will be gone, but in a way, I like that about it. You go in there, and they have these Indian pickles made from wild cucumbers. Next week, in its place, will be garlic pickles or something else awesome.
For what the place is, it's marvelous. It's a little place and about as un-ghetto as it gets. It's nice having a little market where you can pop in and buy polish sausage from a local farmer, organic soup, goat cheese with kalamata olives but you can also get your regular ass Skippy peanut butter and Campbell's soup.
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