Winter Farmers' Market!

When and where did I get this nifty, free bumper sticker? Today, at Winter Fare Northampton! This was a festive one-day winter farmers' market with lots of little extras like a soup-stand (sold out in a little over an hour), educational tables and workshops, and a "dot survey" to get feedback from shoppers. It was a wild success judging from the throngs of busy people and the empty, sold out boxes at the vendors' booths.

I volunteered my time to recruit people to vote at the dot survey, and besides enjoying people's enthusiasm, I got to see the trend of answers to questions like "where do you normally get your local food during the winter?" and "where do you normally get your local food in the summer/fall?" It never occurred to me that these answers would be different, but often they were, including my own. In the summer/fall, I enjoy the social aspect of heading to the farmers' market. In the winter, the CSA is really handy. I'm sure I would save money, and maybe it would be better for the farmers, if I joined a summer/fall CSA and got my extras at the market. What do you do?