I was out there last week, on the lower level, and just about everyone had
tomatoes. The problem was, they were all terrible. While I was there I saw
the same truck going down the row from vendor to vendor and off loading
produce, including tomatoes. I heard the truck driver asking the vendor how
many boxes they wanted of each item!!!


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It seems like everytime I go out there, I see produce being delivered to
each vendor off the back of trucks in boxes. The same truck going from
vendor to vendor.

It seems like each vendor does their best to convince everyone that
everything comes out of their own fields.

I have bought really bad tomatoes from almost every vendor out there.
Hard
to believe everyone had a bad year. Not so hard to believe that one
major
distributor had ethylene rippened tomatoes that he sells to each
vendor??

Does anybody have any idea how much of this produce is actually produced
by
each vendor or do they all buy from the same distributor??



There are two sheds out there. The open shed closest to the entrance
is supposed to be for farmers only. The other shed which is more
enclosed is for vendors who stay open year round and are not farmers but
retailers.

There are probably few tomaotes under the farmers sheds right now
because most fields have quit producing and few farmers grow greenhouse
ripened tomatoes. If you are seeing a commerical truck then you must be
seeing the retail side. They are basically getting the same produce you
find in a grocery store.

Greenhouse grown tomatoes can be tasty but quite expensive.


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