food
Farmers markets are a happening thing right now—everyone who's anyone knows that if you don't buy your mud-covered carrots from a sleepy teenager who just drove four hours into the city that very morning, then your carrots will taste like sawdust, the dinner party will be ruined, and you won't get that promotion. But how do you know where the nearest farmers market is located? You could ask around, or you could hit up this handy
farmers market locator from the USDA, which lets you search by market name, state, city, county, zip code, or forms of payment.
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assistance
You may already know about WIC—"Women, Infants, and Children," the government program that provides nutritional assistance to "low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women," and to their children up to age five. But a lot of people don't know that
if you receive WIC or
if you're a low-income senior, you may also qualify for their farmers market program, which means you can take advantage of the same fresh-from-the-farm bounty as those coke-snorting yuppies who'll buy anything with the word "heirloom" stamped across it.
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farmers markets
Watch out! That local farmer's market might be an insidious hotbed of liberal propaganda. That paper sack full of juicy tomatoes you buy might come with a freebie: a cogent argument in favor of homosexual marriage, or affirmative action, or against the occupation of Iraq!
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Consumerist
