Schedule your doctor's appointments for Tuesdays so you can shop at the farmers market afterwards…read more Lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. So glad I was able to try the ginger gold apples this summer. So crisp, like it was just picked!

This is no Union Square Greenmarket, but it is DEFINITELY worth checking out if you're in the CUMC…read morearea. After all, as we all know, there are precious few options for fresh fruits and veggies in the area. :( Red Jacket is up here, which sells a great variety of apples. There's a dairy stand, and I've picked up a pound of fresh ricotta for $5. They also sell a lemon yogurt that has several of my co-workers addicted; I'm afraid to try it. The bread stand plays fun music and sells a wonderful, redolent selection - baguettes, kale asiago breads, tomato onion breads, rustic breads, and so on. You can still pick up potted herbs, and there is a fantastic variety of seasonal vegetables. Currently, the winter squash look pretty awesome. I'm a bit biased because I work with CHALK, but do come check out the CHALK stand! I'm not even selling you anything - just telling you about healthy nutritional habits and giving you opportunities to win greenbucks (money to spend at the Greenmarket on fruits & veggies). :) I also heartily recommend the Greenmarket manager's stand - Kathleen is super sweet, and she makes delicious food for the demos every single week. We had butternut squash pizza yesterday. Some of her past gems include watermelon mint cucumber smoothie, charred pepper salad, and green tomatillo salsa. She has easy and nutritious recipes and a simple, fun lesson every week. Honey, kale, peppers - you name it, she's probably done a highlight of it at some point in time. The Greenmarket runs every Tuesday from 8am-4:30pm until late November. Credit/debit cards are charged an additional $2 to help offset the costs of free fruits & vegetables for EBT holders. (Oooh - if you have EBT, you get $2 in greenbucks for every $5 you spend). So if you don't have EBT, you can either bring cash or donate $2 to EBT when paying via credit/debit.

This is a small market of 3-5 vendors and is only on Fridays from 8 am - 4 pm for a limited time…read moreduring the year. Plenty of produce and fruit options during the summer like fresh herbs, multiple varieties of kale, corn, squash, eggplant, peaches, apples, etc. Prices are pretty cheap. I got a huge bunch of basil for $2. This would be 2 bunches at a store or even other markets. Great to pick up a couple items on the fly.

This is one of two new "Real Food Markets" that were opened in mid-June by Nina Planck, auther of…read more"Real Food: What to Eat and Why". Nina is responsible for bringing farmers' markets to London, England and at one time was in charge of the Union Square Greenmarket. Her book is a great read and will teach you the importance of eating natural, local and sustainable foods. She is a big supporter of meats and cheeses as well as fruits and vegetables and suggests "eating around the edges of the supermarket" and staying away from processed foods. These are young, new markets and at the moment they're small. The one at Petrosino Square has perhaps a few more vendors than the South Village market, but everything will change come September when people have returned from vacation and all that harvest produce starts rolling in. The market is in session from 10am - 2pm every Saturday until December 23rd. And these are not farmers' markets in the true sense. They are "real food" markets and feature food from not just farmers, but also "food artisans", or people who make things like pickles, zucchini bread, yogourt, etc. Last Saturday I picked up a delicious round of cheese bread and bag of pea shoots courtesy of Thanksgiving Farms, some unbelievable bacon from Cayuga Farms and a slice of delectably moist zucchini bread from Brooklyn's very own Angie's Exotic Bakery. Stone Ridge Orchards from the Catskills was in the process of unpacking big baskets of ripe produce and there was even a pickle stand going on with lots of free samples. Shopping at one of the Real Food markets is a great way to get to know local farmers and purveyors of down home, natural, sustainably raised food. It's healthy, it's tasty and it's fun!

The Youthmarket is run by GrowNYC, the same group that runs the Greenmarkets. The difference is…read morethat the Youthmarket not only serves the community as a source for fresh food, it provides job skills training and food education for the neighborhood young people who staff it. The Youthmarket in front of the Abrons Art Center is open on Thursdays this summer from 3-7PM. On opening day last week it was just one table, but the quality of the offerings was high, the prices were fair and there was a reasonable variety of fruit and veg available, including cherries, carrots, apples and beets. Not organic, but local and very fresh. Prices about the same as at the Greenmarkets. This little Greenmarket is not worth going out of your way for, but well worth a visit if you live in the neighborhood. If supporting the Greenmarkets gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, supporting the Youthmarket ought to provide an even warmer fuzzier feeling. If all you're after is some fresh local fruit and veg they're a good source. Glad to have them in the neighborhood.

Mt. Sinai Greenmarket is getting to be my favorite. It's open on a weekday when it's easier for me…read moreto get here early. The Meredith's employees are very nice, friendly and super efficient. I can place an order and then pick it up here. I know I don't shop at the other stands but I'm recommending anyone living or working nearby support this Greenmarket before it's gone!! I'm a huge advocate for GrowNYC!

Wish it were here more days out of the week! That being said set up Wednesday's from around…read more10am-3:30/4pm from June to late November. I have purchased delicious honey and lots of gluten free pastries. Can't wait for them to return.

Expensive !! $$$$$ we may have to queue up to pay if it…read moretakes a long time to get to the end of the line. That's not fair ! The process is quite good but very expensive i mean $5 for a pound of tomatoes! Get out of here!

Our absolute Sunday morning ritual. Still my favorite market and am always looking forward to when…read morethis is here in the summers. We go every weekend. And my regulars are - fish market for flounder, clams or striped bass - fresh tomatoes, strawberries, spinach, zucchini, watercress, callaloo veggie, cilantro and bok choy These are all my must buys every single week. Bulk of my weekly veggies are from this market and I will not have it any other way!!!

Delicious fresh fruit...easy access...reasonable prices. I appreciated the convenient location on…read moremy way home!

for a fruit/veggie stand to be still.in biz after the last 3 years is enough for me to stop at 45th…read morest and madison and spend 15 to 20 bucks . good fruits and veggies and prices cant be beat. 8 bananas, 10 tangerines, 4 green apples, 2 boxes of strawberries. 3 boxes of blueberrys, 4 pears, , 2 pounds of grapes and one mango will make my office slackers very happy and healthy for a change. the nyc fruit stands strive in the city and its easy to see why. Damn I got to go back, forgot the lemons , plums, and navel oranges .

One of the oldest farmer's markets in New Jersey and clearly the only surviving one in continuous…read moreoperation in north Jersey, this is exactly precisely what a farmer's market was, is, and should be: an area located near a railhead -- or canal dock, or other such large transportation hub -- for the purpose of selling whatever just came off the train, or whatever is going on the train later that day. The freight train no longer stops here, but the market lives on. On any given day you will find whatever it is you need to find, fresh, daily, at this market. The shame of it, Corrado's does a better job at presentation and sometimes even pricing, and it's about two blocks away. You're then given something of a choice, which is to stay at this open-air bazaar (and it has traditional storefronts as well, as is open 24/365 because enough religious contingents overlap to make that possible)... or get in your car and go to Corrado's. Most in the neighborhood elect to preserve life and limb and not attempt to cross Crooks Avenue, as it has become overly-trafficked in the past ten years. Good luck even trying to make a left onto Crooks in a car. In any case, if you happen to live in the neighborhood, this beats A&P and Pathmark, etc hands-down. It's a rare enough resource and worth the trip, especially since it puts you close to so much South Paterson goodness. -C

More commonly known as the Paterson Farmer's Market. The market is several produce and garden…read morecenters located along a few blocks in an industrial/residential area of Paterson. There are some good prices to be had here. On saturday there were a few "local farms" selling fresh produce but generally the items sold in the various businesses located here are similar to what you would find in your local grocery store produce section. By the way, on Saturday this place is real busy. I would imagine the weekdays are easier to shop.