With the weather warming up and the farmers market season beginning in many regions, this short video may be helpful to some of our rookie market goers out there:  "How to Shop at a Farmers Market"

Don't be ashamed, we've all been first timers at the market once in our lives...

Some of the tips they include are bringing a list, shopping early in the morning to get the most variety and talking with your vendors to get tips on seasonal harvests.

I'd add to that bringing a shopping a bag (so you're...

I've been attending the indoor farmers market all winter, and I'm looking forward to the start of the outdoor market season in just a couple of weeks here in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

With the change in weather recently, I've had the opportunity to stroll around our fine city that was recently spruced up for this year's NFL Super Bowl. 

While out, I stumbled upon the Wishard Slow Food Garden out at the White River State Park along our city's cultural trail.

Founded by Laura Henderson in the fall of...

The farmers market is anything but boring.  I mean, look what happened in Nashville, Tennessee here.

Who knows when this could hit your local market?!?

The next time you're shopping for free range pork, or perusing the offerings of your neighborhood organic dairy farm, you could easily get caught up in just such a frenzy.  I know I would!

Anyways, enjoy this video.  I bet it was fun to plan and even more fun to pull off in front of unexpecting farmers market goers. 

What are your local markets doing...

What a great way for a city to help promote their downtown farmers' market.  This video will make you smile.  All I have to say is GET DOWN MEMPHIS!

With over 60 vendors, the Memphis Farmers Market is a weekly open-air, non-profit market featuring locally sourced produce, fruits, and meats, in addition to locally produced arts and crafts.

The community is drawn to the venue with its live music, entertainment, children activities, and over 100 cooking and educational demonstrations.  Truly a...

The slow food movement has been brought about by serious health concerns like obesity and cancer that have increasing in prevalence in our nation by the overabundance of refined processed foods these past several years.

"You get more nutrients when you eat fresh food immediately rather than keeping it for a week or two weeks," explains Terry Carkner, the owner of Terry's Berries Farm.

OUT with the OLD, and IN with the WHOLE says this video.  See what you think, and watch this video on healthy,...

Based in Indianapolis, Indiana FarmersMarket.com is a software start-up company dedicated to helping grow the local food systems movement.  We've created software to simplify the task of running a farmers market by providing online tools to help manage daily administrative duties like calendaring market days, maintaining a vendor contact list, enabling group and individual messaging, and providing an online public profile page to showcase a market's information to its customers.

A Beta-tester of...

Anthony Bourdain.  Who doesn't love this guy?

Here he is visiting the San Francisco farmers market... and admittedly hoping to HATE it!  Turns out, he was pleasantly surprised.  As he should be!

Delicious samples of blue cheese and a giant plate of reasonably priced tamales won him over.  Good job Ferry Building Marketplace.  Score one for local food systems!

"that was good"

"thanks for the tip"

"really good"

"all this food is delicious"

...escapes his lips.

Watch this clip as Anthony strolls through...

Spring has sprung.  The weather is getting warmer, and farmers market shopping season is right around the corner. When you're new to the slow food movement, shopping at your local market can be intimidating.  There are dozens of vendors, crowds of shoppers, and an all new way of shopping ahead of you.

I found this video of Chef Nicole Straight who visits Westport, Connecticut's Farmer's Market and provides  tips for making the most at a farmer's market.  If you want some help knowing what to look...

Who doesn't love good food fast?  I know I do, especially when I'm starving and don't have time to cook.  The struggle is finding an establishment that provides food with integrity that's also, well... fast.

Looks like Chipotle is solving just that conundrum.  Check out this little clip.

One of my favorite Coldplay songs, "the Scientist" is such a good fit for this short video depicting the struggles of a farmer as he is pulled into the quickly evolving food system of factory-like food...

I started up a channel for FarmersMarket.com on YouTube to share some of the videos regarding our local food systems.  Check out this video by NourishLife.org about farmers markets. 

"It's about having a relationship and taking responsibility for your food."  We couldn't agree more.

FarmersMarket.com is building an online community of farmers markets.  We support the success of these markets across the nation by providing HUSK, an online tool to help farmers market managers run and promote these...