First Visit to the Rochester Farmers' Market

One of the things we most enjoyed in Philadelphia was our weekly run to the Reading Terminal Market. Before we moved, we started researching farm markets and local farms and discovered what a treat we would be in for. Minnesota appears to be a huge center for farmers' markets, community-supported agriculture and other farm-to-table efforts, and one of the highlights of our May visit was checking out the Rochester Downtown Farmer's Market.

The market is open Saturday mornings May to October and has probably 50 vendors of fruit, vegetables, breads ... and a truly dizzying selection of organic grass-feed beef, poultry and pork trucked in by the farmers themselves.

Because we don't yet have our kitchen utensils and cookware (Monday, hopefully), we kept our spree small: 1 New York strip steak, two loaves of bread and a pint of sugar snap peas. You can count on larger haul in upcoming weeks.