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| - I love farmers markets and was excited to check out this one, especially after reading all those great reviews, so since my husband had a day off we took a 45-minute drive there. I was looking forward to finding a market bustling with vendors, full of colorful fresh produce, you know - what you usually find at other markets; I was looking forward to trying their praised ice-cream... How disappointed I was when I didn't see any produce, but just a few vendors offering cookies and other sweets. Then we walked into their cute little store where I bought raspberry sorbet and vanilla ice cream, my husband chose a pulled pork sandwich served with beans and a piece of pickle from their food stand outside. The raspberry sorbet didn't taste like raspberries at all - just sugar. I understand that it only had two ingredients - raspberries and sugar which is great, since other companies usually add some artificial or natural flavor and I always avoid those, BUT then they were supposed to use the freshest, ripest and most flavorful berries and not those they sell at "Costco" or most other stores - they don't even smell like raspberries. Vanilla ice cream was better, but still just OK. I make my own and it does taste much better, even though I use store-bought organic cream since I don't have a cow in my backyard. Forget homemade, any ice-cream we bought at "Sweet Republic" was waaaaaay better, and you can taste it first there and decide which flavor you want. Here, you can't taste it, so we spent $5 and I felt like it was wasted because I didn't really enjoy it. My husband's meal was not better either. He said that the beans were out of a can (beans with pork), he said they tasted exactly like the canned beans he used to eat (we don't eat stuff like that at home since I make everything from scratch). The pickle was inedible ("How can you mess up a pickle?", - he wondered, "Buy the wrong/cheap brand", - was my answer), he didn't eat it, the pork was OK, just OK - nothing outstanding or even delicious or tasty. And this "pleasure" was $7... I remember about a year ago he went with me to Old Town Scottsdale Farmers' Market and he bought a $7 hot dog/brat from "Brat haus" which apparently had a special promotion event there that day, and he did mention it was a little bit too much for a hot dog but he really enjoyed it and admitted that it was worth it. So, if you know what good food tastes like, we wouldn't recommend it. Of course, there are people who find it delicious... it just wasn't us. On the positive note, the petting zoo is super cute and all those animals are adorable, including chickens running around. It's a great place for kids, just bring your own food! I was sad to see all those cows standing in the dirt but I guess since we live in the desert I can't expect green pastures and happily grazing cows...anyway, they just looked sad to me. The place itself is very nice, especially if you want to get away from the city and spend some quality time with your family, just bring your own food! Nice garden, although I prefer Singh Farms in Scottsdale which I fell in love with the very first time my friend brought me there and always look forward to going there again and again, besides it's so much closer and is both a farmer's market (the real one!) and a garden/park. The place has a lot of potential and I would recommend to visit it, even if only once... JUST BRING YOUR OWN FOOD!!!!!
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