DiIorio Farms Partnership/Farmers Market — Local services in Hempstead

We drove almost an hour and bought 8 watermelons, 4 cantaloupes, and a basket of tomatoes. Needless to say only one of the 8 seeded watermelons tasted good and sweet. We bought one yellow meat & 8 red meat watermelons. The yellow meat taste like eating the watermelon rind. It had no taste. We bought the 2/$5 cantaloupe we bought four of those and this was on a saturday by Monday to the cantaloupe were rotten. The tomatoes had no flavor. We spent over $80 and only enjoyed one watermelon and drove almost an hour very disappointed because who wants to drive back an hour to exchange watermelon that we cut on the chance that we get mire that don’t taste good , the texture of three of the red meat watermelons was too soft very very soft and we kept cutting the watermelons hoping that we would cut a good one and finally we did cut a good one after we cut 6 watermelons but we only have one watermelon left and that was the yellow meat, no flavor no taste very disappointed will not be returning. It’s not worth the over $100 I spent in one day on gas and fruit. I’ll cut my losses and won’t return. Couldn’t give less...

I called Saturday morning and specifically asked if they had shelled purple hull peas by the bushel before I drove an hour to get to them. I even asked if I needed to reserve it by paying for it over the phone. I was told they had them and there was no need to reserve it. After driving an hour the young lady at the register told me they no longer sold them by the bushel. I told her that I had just called about an hour ago before I made the drive to check. She told me they had just made that decision. So I asked how do they sell them, she said by the pound. So asked the price per pound. I told her that I needed about 7 - 10 lbs. So she told me to go over and scoop them out of the container. Of course when I went over there they did not have even close to that amount. So I was given wrong information and met with super poor customer service. I don't believe I will be a customer...

Makes me sad to say it, but this place is a shell of its former self. Most of the produce is no longer locally farm grown but instead bought from large commercial growers and repackaged to make you think it's local. As an example, the strawberries they sell in the styrofoam cups used to be amazing, locally grown, and the best strawberries you've ever had. Last time I was there though, I saw a worker unloading a pallet of plastic-clamshell Driscolls strawberries, loading them into styrofoam cups, then stacking up the clamshells to be thrown away. So not only are they charging twice what the strawberries are worth, but they're also wasting twice as much packaging. It's downright shameful and beyond wasteful, all to be able to trick customers with their "hand-pAcked...