El Cerrito Plaza Farmers' Market — Local services in El Cerrito

This farmers market is open twice a week on tuesday and saturday at the east end parking lot of ECP. Relatively smaller than other market, they really don't need to have a vast array of selection provided that Lucky and TJ is located here as well. I came at a time of covid-19, so I don't have any past history at this market to compare with. I was here on tuesday cattin off checking things out killing time in bay area before returning to sin city. The market consist of less than 10 vendors each with different offering, but I didn't find much here (sparse) and didn't want to overbuy. Every vendor had some form of protection for their customer whether it be hand sanitizer or wipes and samples are eliminated for now, but you can rest assured they're serious about safety. And they enforce the you touch it, you buy it policy. I walked away with orange, strawberry, and cherry just to help these farmers out even though I closed up business for over a month helping others in times of need is the best I can do.

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HIGHER PRICES THAN GROCERY STORE! Tomatoes for $3.50 a POUND...FROM THE FARM....ARE YOU INSANE? IT ONLY COSTS 56- 70¢/ LB TO HARVEST. AVERAGE POLE TOMATO PLANT PRODUCES AVERAGE MINIMUM OF 30LBS( UC DAVIS AG EC 2005 RSCH); AN ACRE HAS 7000 TO 9600 PLANTS ON 4 FT ROWS 11 TO 13TONS (21,000-27,000LB)/ ACRE & 60-70 TONS/ ACRE FOR PROCESSING TOMATOES( UC DAVIS AG EC RSCH). GROCERS PAY ONLY $.75-1.50/ LB WHOLESALE FOR POLE/ HEIRLOOM TOMATOES. $2-2.50 PER POUND IS A PREMIUM CASH PRICE...

Good fruits and veggies and a couple local crafts and foods. If you're in the area grab a few things instead of Trader Joe's, or the whole foods on Gilman. Sunday at Kensington has more, but sometimes you find jewels like these artichoke...