Shop Local Farmers Markets

Breaking bread around a table with friends and family has been an adored pastime since as long as anyone knows, and during this time of the year we all do it a bit more than usual – this is a good thing 🙂
Before you hit your favorite grocery store remember one of the biggest reasons so many people love Fresyes, CA… its abundance of locally grown fresh fruit and vegetables, and the various farmers markets that you can find them at.

Let’s face it, locally grown food looks and taste better. When you buy food grown locally it has likely been picked in the last day or two and will be bursting with flavor, freshness, and nutrients… you can’t say the same about frozen or food trucked in from Chile, Florida, or Central America.

Not only are you helping yourself and your family when buying direct local, you are also helping the farmer (who is slowly becoming the way of the rotary dial phone). Would it surprise you to learn that the farmer now gets less than 10 cents of the retail food dollar?!
Local farmers who sell direct to consumers cut out the middleman and get full retail price for their food; which means farm families can afford to stay on the farm, doing the work they love.

So help yourself to some delicious fruits and vegetables while re-establishing a time-honored tradition between the grower and the consumer. In November I’m thinking table grapes, persimmons, plums, pomegranates, fall broccoli, long beans, squash, eggplant, tomatoes, bell pepper, leafy vegetables and citrus!

Times of operation vary so be sure to ask a friend or search the web but here are a handful of favorites I suggest you give a try:
– Market On the Mall on Historic Fulton Mall at Mariposa Mall
– Fresno State Farm Market at 5360 N Chestnut
– Vineyard Farmer’s Market at the Northwest corner of Blackstone and Shaw
– Tower Farmers’ Market on Olive in the Tower District
– Riverpark Farmers’ Market on the east side of Blackstone and Nees
– Fresno Medical Center Farmers Market at Kaiser Permanente
– Old Town Clovis Farmers Market near 5th street and Clovis Avenue

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Jason Farris

Head YES man at FresYes.com

I grew up in Fresno. Relaxed in its calm breezes, listened with my dad to the crack of the bat at little league baseball games when I was a kid and now take my son to do the same at minor league games. I broadened my mind at its schools (I went to high school right here at San Joaquin Memorial, and to college at Fresno State!) I love that if I drive for two hours in one direction, I can be in the mountains. For two hours in another, luxuriating on a California beach. I can enjoy the cosmopolitan atmosphere of San Francisco or Los Angeles, but still be able to come home to relaxation, calm, and quiet.

I love where I live, and I also love what I do. I'm lucky to be able to work in a profession in which I get to build relationships; one that has me meeting new people each and every day and helping them to build new lives in my beloved city. I'm lucky enough to work in a profession in which I can marry cutting-edge technologies and marketing techniques to good, old-fashioned, nose-to-the-grindstone work. I am lucky enough to work in a profession that allows me to work as an advocate for my clients; to use every tool at my disposal to get a job done well for them, and with as little stress and expense as possible.

I love my city. I love my job. One inspires my excellence for the other.

Fresno? I say FresYES

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