Farmers Markets in the Tampa Bay area

[GBov]

Hi, we finally finished the big move :banana02: and are now trying to find all the things around us that will help a budget stretch farther

Now, when I was little I use to go to a HUGE farmers market with my grandma in Warner Robbins. It had lots of big trucks and long open sided sheds and you could buy bushels of produce instead of little baskets and my gran and I use to get it home and prepare it for the freezer - great times - so if I am going to keep us eating thats the kind of thing I need to find now as the move, like all moves, has cost heaps more than expected.................sigh.................so any help in finding a great farmers mart would be wonderful

[Ross]

I think the Gardening forum has a sticky with farmers market info

[Ross]

In the Market Garden section
http://homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=267879

[Ken Scharabok]

Go to www.switchboard.com. Do a search on farmers market as a business and then the Tampa, FL area as the location. Apparently several of them.

What is there likely depends on the market rules. Some may insist on self-grown. Others may allow reselling of produce purchased from a wholesaler.

[FL.Boy]

Here's one east of 75 on Hillsborough Avenue

Tampa Wholesale Product Market
2801 East Hillsborough Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33610
Contact: Tom Joseph
(813) 237-3314
OPEN-AIR
Monday-Saturday, 3:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

I have never been there but have drove past a few times and they where busy.
Here's a list of some more at the bottom is one in Ybor City.

http://www.fruitstands.com/states/florida.htm

[GBov]

Cool, thanks guys

And better yet, an excuse to spend more time on the computer in the guise of "its research, dear"