What’s the best way to get fresh, local food? Go to your local Farmers Market, that’s how! For us, that means going to the Saratoga Farmers Market. Over the summer my husband and I talked about going to the Farmers Market on a Saturday to see what it was like. The only problem with that was we kept forgetting about it until one Friday when we were driving through Saratoga and I saw the Farmers Market sign. That was a pretty good reminder! So that Saturday we went and loved it. We loved it so much we’ve been going to it every Saturday morning for the last 4 weeks I think.

The Saratoga Farmers Market has many, many tents with many many fresh products to buy. There are tents with fresh fruit, apple cider, and apples. There are fresh veggies like Brussel sprouts, (which my husband was very happy with his purchase of). There is a tent with honey that always looks interesting. There are tents with hot food that looks and smells so good.

Mrs. London has her own spot under a rather long tent where you can buy delicious croissants and other pastries. Not too far from them, you can buy coffee and lemonade. There is even a place that sells premade chicken pot pies that you can bring home. We haven’t tried them yet, but it always sounds intriguing. Before I forget there is live music from different performers at the market.

Besides for Mrs. London and her fresh croissants, my other two favorite tents are Toga Nola and what I like to refer to as the bread tent. Togo Nola has peanut-free granola that I can eat and it’s so so good. It’s so good that when we finished the small bag of granola we purchased a bigger bag. And then there is the bread tent where you can buy bread of course. But they also have some cookies that I find I love. (Nightwork Bread is the name.)

With the cold weather starting to hit Upstate New York the Farmers Market in Saratoga will no longer be in the tents on Saturdays but have no fear because they will be setting up their tents in the Wilton Mall in Wilton New York which is only about 5-10 minutes away from Saratoga. So you still get all your fresh local products from Saratoga only you can walk around the mall as well.

Kathleen Smith author of Miscarriages My Story, Brooklyn Raised Livin’ Upstate & Hey You Moments to Remember. Blogs about a variety of things. Has her own podcast Kathleen’s Korner and she is the CEO of BearsWithApps. OH, let’s not forget her YouTube channel