South Pearl Street Farmers Market

In my opinion, South Pearl Street Farmers Market is the best produce shopping farmers market in the Denver area. It runs every Sunday from May 11, 2014 through November 2, 2014 at 9 am to 1 pm.

The Miller Farms tent is the biggest bang for your 10 bucks. They give you a potato sack, and you can fill up the sack with as much produce as you can. They have tables full of produce that you can pick through such as: tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, red and yellow onions with the green onions still on them,dill, cilantro, basil, beets jalapenos, pasilla peppers, bell peppers, green and red leaf lettuce, kale, cantaloupe, carrots, broccoli, yellow/red/russet potatoes, zucchini, squash, and watermelon. They also sell some other items that you can view on their site that they sell separately or at different times of the season. 

The next placed I stopped was Avanti Winery. It is a local winery that bottles their wine in Littleton, Colorado, and they get their grapes from the western slope. This winery donates part of its proceeds to the Greyhound Rescue Fund. At the market, I met the owner, and he allows you to taste the wines before you buy it. They had only a selection of their wines that they were offering at the market, and they had Peach Muscato which was on the sweet side, Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc, 3 Pasiano, and Chardonnay. A lot of people seemed to be buying the dessert wine, Peach Muscato, but it was a little too sweet for my liking. I ended up buying the Pinot Grigio. If you are interested in going to their wine tasting, you can visit their site for more information.

My second to last stop was the Keen One Quinoa. Quinoa is a current popular grain that is healthy for you. Like majority of the other products sold at the market, this is also a product from Colorado in the city of Boulder. It is GMO free and organic. They offer plain instant quinoa, and other instant breakfast items and side dishes. If interested in buying some of the products, people can buy online. They had plain, cinnamon raisin or apple berry super cereal, garden medley, chipotle, and thai curry.They also offer a chocolate snack.

Last but not least, I stop at my favorite food truck, Quiero Arepa. An arepa is a Venezuelan corn flatbread that they grill on the griddle and stuff with meats, cheeses and vegetables. My favorite is the Reina Pepiada which is filled with shredded chicken, avocados, and a citrus dressing. I also washed it down with a refresco tropical which has passion fruit, guava, and mango juices mixed together. To say the least, it was a refreshing finale to my shopping day.