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Houston's Farmers Market www.houstonfarmersmarket.org Saturday Market - 8am to noon: Located behind Onion Creek Coffee House 3106 White Oak (between Studewood and Heights Blvd.) Tuesday Market - 4pm to 7pm: south side of Rice Stadium, entrance #9, off of University Blvd www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html !!NEW!! Discovery Green Farmer's Market!! NEW!! www.discoverygreen.com/eventscalendar Thursdays- 10am until 2pm (Check the calendar - this may change) Located at the new Discovery Green Park downtown (across from the GRB) Midtown Farmers Market www.tafia.com/mfm.html Saturdays - 8am until Noon Located at Monica Pope's t'afia, 3701 Travis Street Bayou City Farmers Market www.urbanharvest.org Wednesday Market - 4pm-7pm Saturday Market - 8am-noon Located just north of the intersection of Richmond and Eastside, behind office building. (Eastside has a stoplight and it's in between Kirby and Buffalo Speedway) Central City Co-Op www.centralcityco-op.org Close to downtown, midtown, Montrose and all over Houston 1705 California Every Wednesday 9 am to 6:30 pm Every Saturday 9 am to 2 pm Katy Farmers Market at LaCenterra www.FarmersMarketAtLaCenterra.com La Centerra ~ Heritage Square 23501 Cinco Ranch Blvd, Katy Every Saturday 8 am to 12 pm Bay-Fest Farmers Market www.bay-fest.com Saturdays (except holiday weekends) 12:00 noon - 4:00 pm Hardesty Avenue & 5th Street in Old Seabrook Fresh Foods Market at Armand Bayou Nature Center www.abnc.org Alternating Saturdays from 11:00am-2:00pm 8500 Bay Area Blvd, Pasadena, Texas  Finally, if you want to grow your own, while this is probably the worst time of the year to try and plant tomatoes and/or grow them from seed, it is the perfect time to build your beds for the Fall Vegetable Garden of your dreams. To get that started, here's a tip sheet about building the perfect beds for Tomato Gardening in Houston. We are only 2 months away from getting serious about planting Fall Vegetable seeds and transplants, so it is in your best interest to build the beds immediately and let them "rest" or "mellow" for two months.
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That's it! It's OFFICIAL!! I'm sick of the media twist on the Tomato/Salmonella story. I'm not even going to go into all the statistical data and how overblown the story and ultimate food scare has become. But I will say it is without much merit. Suffice it to say that there's another way around it.
I promised a number of people on the air last weekend that I would post the Farmers Markets, so that's coming right up. Plus, there are few Pick-Your-Own operations as well. While the news media does its idiotic best to ruin a perfectly safe food crop, you and I can combat this insanity by buying perfectly safe tomatoes at Farmers Markets throughout the city and the state. If I missed a Farmers Market or Pick-Your-Own operation, by all means send me an 
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