Citizen Journalist for SooNews.ca With summer in full swing, now is the time to check out the offerings at the areas many Farmers Markets. All across Ontario, shoppers are choosing Farmers' Markets for nature's best produce, where the food is fresh, high in quality and the next best thing to harvesting it yourself. People come to meet the vendors who nurtured seedlings into plants, picked the fruit, pulled the vegetables, baked mouth-watering bread and other treats, prepared delectable jams, jellies and other preserves and loaded their trucks early in the morning to bring their products to town. They come to chat, to learn, to leave with tips about perfect ripeness, food preparation and even a recipe or two. They come to connect with the land, many with their own baskets and bags ready to carry seasonal flavours home to their...
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