While perusing fresh lacinato kale, heirloom tomatoes, raw honey and summer squash at my local farmer’s market this weekend, I kept thinking, “This stuff is too good to be squished into a reused plastic bag from the supermarket.” I found myself longing for today’s Freebie Friday — this simple, stylish and highly functional Market & Fruit Picking Pack from Kaufmann Mercantile Store. The rattan pack’s cotton back straps and squish-free design are enough to make it a must-have for any farmer’s-market-frequenting locavore. Plus, last month style-maven Joy Cho from the Oh Joy! blog featured it as the ultimate picnic basket.
All you have to do to be entered into the random drawing for this rustic chic market basket is leave us a comment before 12/11c Monday, July 11. So easy!
This week’s question: How do you enjoy summer’s fruit and veggie harvest? Do you can the excess produce into tomato sauces or jams? Bake a ton of fruit pies and cobblers? Enjoy everything fresh and raw?
This basket would be awesome to own and take on picnics. I love the style
What a perfect basket for my garden, which I consider my own personal farmers market. I just finished making strawberry/rhubarb jam and ice cream topping.
I've been slicing and dicing then freezing squash and okra so far. That's after we have had a meal or two of the fresh. And it's so wonderful to have fresh cantaloupe and watermelons!
I would share with friends and neighbors, that is if anything made it from the garden to them without a detour for a taste test. Can't give it away unless I know it is good!
Beautiful Basket. I enjoy the summer harvest by eating lots of fresh and raw fruits and veggies!
We make our garden a family affair. My granddaughter and I like to pick veggies fresh from Pa Pa's garden to make fresh veggie soup with. This garden brings the three of us together as a family, as we pick the tomatoes, squash, and other vegetables. Some we can, some we freeze, and some we eat in salads or other unique new dishes. Also, the fresh vegetables are a nice healthy snack for her.
I would love this basket to help my children get excited about gardening. I am a stay at home mom now, but was a teacher of Kindergarten Children. I have a five year old boy and three year old girl. We started a garden with our neighbors' help. I neighbor was sick and had numerous surgeries. He has had a garden for as long a we have known them. When he had the surgeries he could not do some of the work to have his garden. So I insisted our family would help him and his wife do the work if he told us what to do. He then said he would help us do a garden for us for the children. We have been doing our own garden with our neighobs' help. Now we have become a special family.
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We have diffenernt things in our gardens and we share what we grow. We even share making things for our holiday meals. It is the two of them and they have no grill. For this forth of July I used the grill and made lobster tail and potatos with cheader cheese.Our neighbors made from their garden the vegetables. We had corn on the cob, yellow squash with walnuts, cinnamon and cracker crumbs. Donna also made the rhubarb crisp from her garden. We gathered what we made and shared the best forth of July ever. We watch the July 4, show on TV then went to our house, Sat on our deck and watched the fire works around our houses. It was the best time ever. We now both have a garden which was designed with different things in both so we trade our harvest with each other and get twice the amount of home grown than if we only had our garden. We also save money and teach the children cooperation, kindness, sharing and courtesy. We have become our own little family with special bonds that are precious and priceless.
I would love to have this basket for a riverside picnic
This Ultimate Picnic Basket is Perfect for my husband and I! We would love this! It has a great style and space that makes it great for everything!
We love the outdoors! I could ride my bike to the beach with a big picnic and room to spare! In Charleston, SC ( where we live) going downtown to the market this would look amazingly stylish! Riding my bike to the grocery store would be a piece of cake and could probably fit a cake too! Please pick me we would really love to be able to look GREAT and organized!
My family wait every year for the mouth watering peaches. We try to freeze them to enjoy during the winter but it's just not the same.
Love this basket. It would be perfect to carry through our local Farmer's market. We live in Dayton OH where the 2nd Street Marketplace is the place to gather and buy from local producers on Saturdays.
We love late summer when the red peppers go on sale. During the year, they can cost as much $3.00 EACH! By summer time, the farmers markets are brimming with them for less than a dollar. I would fill this beautiful basket with red peppers, tomatillos and roma tomatoes. Then we would head home to can salsa and roasted peppers. Nothing like it during a long, wet Oregon winter.
The grandkids (9,4 and almost 2) LOVE to pick and eat the strawberries and if there are enough left, we make strawberry shortcake. The raspberries are mostly eaten immediately, or go into milkshakes – YUM! Ripe tomatoes, sliced on a plate or fried green. Lots of salads, green beans, carrots and more. The gkids help plant and harvest the veggies and love to see how much they've grown each time they come over.
Not only do I love farmer's markets, but I LOVE going to local pick-your-own places and stocking up on fresh strawberries, blueberries, peaches, apricots, apples, squash, and pumpkin! There is constantly something needing canning, freezing, or stewing around my place! This basket would certainly help with those self-picked endeavors
What we don't eat….we freeze….
Eat what we can. Can what we eat.
Fresh and raw is for me…if I can't grow it then the Farmers Market is the place to be!
I definitely enjoy all my fruits and veggies raw. I have a toddler and multiple parrots so I also always have an opportunity to share all of my fresh fruits and veggies.
I like to take peaches or apples and slice them add cinnamon, sugar, lemon juice and a little flour and scoop enough for a pie into freezer bags and layh them flat in the freezer for fresh peach or apple pie all winter. This basket would be awesome to take to the farmer's market on Saturday to collect fresh veggies…
This basket would be great at the farmers market, it could be used with a bike. Nice birthday present for myself. Hahahaha Good luck everyone!!!xD<3xD
Very nice basket, classy but rustic would look great at my cabin @ Priest Lake Idaho
I do love baskets. They always provide so many different possibilities…..I wish there were one for each of us!
I love a huge variety of raw veggies and fruit, but stir fry with fresh veggies and apple slices is reallllly good. Just that added touch of sweetness from the apples is wonderful.
I am a baker, so harvesting fruit and veg from my own garden is such a joy! And I love having my fresh picked berries soak in local wine………..such a great treat=)
This is a great basket for homemade hummus and pita chips. This is my new all time favorite snack that I have found great recipes for!
I love grilling my summer veggies but also enjoying sharing the veggies I grow in my little garden.
I would love this basket! What a beauty
I enjoy everything the same day & raw. Wouldn't want it to go to waste!! This basket would be perfect to take to the market with me!!
I was justI was just at the market this weekend and thinking about purchasing an easier carryall basket! I would love to have it
I saw someone with this at a farmer's market recently, what a great idea!
Perfect for a trip to the orchard with the kids or a picnic in the park!
Very classy! This will be great at the grocery store and in the garden…
We like to eat our fruit and vegetables fresh. We love to add fruit on our salads and sandwiches!!!
Looks just like the basket my husband pointed out to me in a picture taken 32 years ago at his Dad's camp! It was a basket that a bear had lugged off many years before that and a game warden had returned!
We wonder what ever became of it!
I live in a small town in Oklahoma and every Saturday morning during the summer we have the Farmers Market downtown and it is great! I go early and swoop up fresh tomatoes, green beans, baby eggplants, onions, potatoes, cantalope, blackberries and peaches and so much more, I need this lovely basket! It is so nice having fresh veggies and fruit all week…peach cobbler and homemade ice cream…yummy