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| - I went to Gilbert Farmers Market for the first time this morning, because so many people have been raving about it. I've been trying to find some good produce that is pesticide free, so a farmer's market seemed the best bet. When I arrived I realized that this was not at all what I thought it was going to be. There were hardly any produce vendors. Like maybe 20% were selling produce, the other 80% were selling products or hot food. I was so disappointed. I drove 30 minutes for such a waste of time and effort. If you want to call yourself a FARMER'S market, you should maybe have more actual farmers there. I'm sure this is a great place to shop if you want a few specialty items, but not if you want to find fresh produce. Now, I understand that product vendors are great to have at farmer's markets, and I typically like to buy the specialty items, but when you have basically no produce and all specialty items, I feel like you should no longer be able to market yourself as a farmer's market. To top it all off, one of the produce vendors didn't actually sell individual produce, but was a co-op where you had to sign up for weekly deliveries and couldn't pick out your own produce. So basically it cut down the produce vendors even more. Such a disappointment.
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