Posted by Gillius | Posted in Grocery Stores, Seattle | Posted on 28-06-2009
Many local citizens of Seattle have likely seen, shopped, or at least heard of the Rising Sun Farms produce market located on 65th and 15th Ave. N.E.
From the design of the place, it very much resembles that of a farmers market which also implies that it has the same quality as such. Another thing you may notice is the ridiculously cheap prices. How is this possible? I asked an employee.
It turns out Rising Sun Farms has absolutely zero quality standards and their only focus is providing produce as cheap as possible. The employee said they stock hardly any organic items and would bet that most of the products are sprayed with pesticides and likely are genetically modified.
If your concern is cheap fruits and vegetables, this may be a place for you. If you are looking for local, sustainable, organic, pure produce, I would suggest looking elsewhere (the place is located 2 blocks away from Whole Foods and 5 minutes from the Saturday University Farmer’s Market).
Yes and no. Look at the placards. They do have organic stuff, and it will be labeled accordingly. A lot of the stuff (about 50%) is in fact local. The worst you can say about Rising Sun is that their selection is at times overripe, so you have to pick carefully.
Whole Foods does *not* have much local produce; your chances of finding local are actually a lot worse than Rising Sun. Obviously it does have much more organic selection, but the price the environment pays for delivering your organic veggies from South America is high.
The Farmer’s Market does have local, but not necessarily organic. It is probably the best of the three, if money is no object.
@ Apu
Yes Whole Foods doesn’t have much local produce. However, their quality standards have them check all of their conventional products to ensure they are not genetically modified. Rising Sun does not do this from what I’ve been told.
With Farmers Markets, that is the best stuff available. I really don’t care if the government gives an organic certification as long as the farmers are growing to organic standards, which they mostly all are.