As a recent Malibu Farmers’ Market raffle winner, I won a free bag full of nutritious goodies from the market. After I drove home and was unpacking my fresh vegetables and fruits, I started thinking about the benefits of a farmers’ market. As the name already implies the products are fresh and some organic.
With a quick trip to the Civic Center, where the market is located, you can take home a fresh basket of strawberries, or a delicious pack of sweet cherries. It is not hard to do, for they are cheap and better than what you may get at a supermarket.
I use the word “fresh” a lot because there is a difference between a farmers’ market and a supermarket. A farmers’ market stand is put up at 11 a.m. with fruits just brought from local farms and gardens. The fruits are different from each other just like a fingerprint, unlike a supermarket’s display of flawless fruits and vegetables coated with wax and polished to shine, with a picture-perfect appearance and looking as if they came out of a factory.
The Farmers’ Market is your source of fresh juicy products where you can find organic products too. The Farmers’ Market is a place that needs to be supported by our local people of Malibu. While you stroll along the Malibu Farmers’ Market with your child eating sun dried fruits, you have a sense of community as you know your presence is valued.
Stephanie Marinello-Silva
8th Grade Student