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 is a work of art!! I love it and would be honored to have it to carry to a farmers market, an orchard or even just the grocery store. When not in use, it would be prominently displayed in my kitchen.
Yea …. what a great looking basket … would hold all my farmer's market goodies and then some!!
This basket reminds me of our trip to Krapina, Croatia!!
What a fantastic basket! So pretty, you could actually store produce in it and decorate your kitchen, too! I would love to tote this to the farmer's market! I'm also waiting for my own garden to produce — first time in about 10 years that we planted, and I've got great plans for fresh salads, grilled veggies, and zucchini bread! Love me my veggies!
We enjoy our summer garden by sharing everything with our neighbors. We'll load upa basket and ride our bicycles around town knocking on doors and sharing our produce. We make lots of sauces and salsas and zucchini bread every year also.
Loving this!
i would love this basket, perfect for those wonderful summer farmers markets on Saturday mornings!
We love summer fruits……fresh fruit salad with oranges, apples, blueberries, pineapple, coconut and pecans. Then there's fresh canteloupe, watermelon and grapes. Another favorite is sweet corn on and off the cob. Broccoli and summer squash are right up there with corn. We go to the wonderful Sarasota Farmers Market.
I love the basket and need the basket!
The basket is amazing…it would a fabulous addition to my saturdays at the farmers market!
We love hitting multiple local markets in the area- this basket would be WONDERFUL to help carry the load! As a blogger and a participant in NC 10 percent we try to make sure that at least 10 per cent of our food is sourced locally, so our farmer's markets are a major source for us
I can see me walking around Lexington Market in Baltimore with this basket! Would love to win it!
We love hitting multiple local markets in the area- this basket would be WONDERFUL to help carry the load! As a blogger and a participant in NC 10 percent we try to make sure that at least 10 per cent of our food is sourced locally
I love love love baskets, this one would really add to my collection, but it would be very useful
We usually enjoy everything "fresh and raw", but this year we're going to try to make some pickles! We have an awesome Farmers Market in town on Friday nights. I would LOVE this basket to "show off" at the Farmers Market!!
I love fresh vegies & fruits and trying new recipes with them for my family! This is a GREAT basket to have for the farmer's market!
I enjoy Summers harvest with FRESH veggies. Tomatoes are my favorite on all sandwiches and chopped up with fresh basil to make a bruschetta topping. My mother (Italian) turns all the leftover tomatoes into her wonderfu, homemade sauce that I can't resist and eat plain with a spoon at times. All of this sauce gets frozen and is used for various holidays and get-togethers throughout the year until Summer comes round again. As for the basket, I see it housing fresh towels and linens in the bathroom rather than holding Summer's bounty. This way it can be enjoyed much more.
We have a great farmers market in downtown
Rochester NY. But we also have smaller ones
in all the suburbs. I love this time of the year!
All the fruits an veggies are so fresh and the
foods so yummy!
Hope it hasn't been given away yet it's Saturday the 9th of July. I also hope this is how we enter for a chance to win this basket. I could use this for going to the farmers market, the Chesapeake Bay, etc while pushing hubby's wheelchair. Well, may the best person win.
I go to the farmer's market 2-3 times a week all summer and fall. In fact, going today. I wish I had a basket like this. The market vendors know me by sight and I have to get there quickly before all the red tomatoes and the new red potatoes are gone. I need this basket! I'd love to win it, but since I never win anything, can I purchase it somewhere? It's beautiful and I LOVE baskets!!!
Fresh and raw, baby. There is nothing better!
That basket would not only be great for going to the farmer's market, it would also be beautiful to keep my knitting and crocheting projects when we travel.
I love using fresh strawberries and making strawberry pizza for dessert. The kids love it. My next trip to farmers market I will be buying raw honey, as I have heard it helps with allergies.
Love this basket! Good for a magazine rack too !
Delightful basket to take to the local farmers market and not have all my produce in those yucky plastic bags. Produce likes to breathe!!!
This basket would be great for when I go to the local farmer's market. I am a juicer and buy tons of veggies. I also get fresh locally grown blueberries that I freeze and put on my greek yogurt in the winter, as well as keep them out on the counter and grab a hand full when I go into the kitchen. Eat'em just like candy. The blueberry grower gives me fresh beet tops free! How awesome is that?
I love this basket!
Adorable basket! Perfect for the Farmer's Market haul or even carrying my own small garden's gifts in the back yard!
SUMMER TIME! SUMMER TIME! Can't beat it! So we eat it Fresh!
This looks like a fabulous basket for the french market we go to every Sunday a.m.
I live near a great farmer's market & this basket would be absolutely perfect for loading up with fresh fruit & veggies to bring home.
LOVE baskets and this one is fantastic! Great for farmer's market purchases, but also great standing alone.
I collect baskets and this one is great. I have a huge pear tree that is almost ready for picking. I can smell them cooking now, add a little cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar…..ummm! I also can pears and give as gifts throughout the year and
the basket is beautiful!! Love making fresh salsas! fresh salads and sharing with neighbors friends and family!!
Stylish, roomy and comfortable. I can take this basket every Sunday to my local farmer's market. I enjoy eating fresh fruits and vegetables ( love eggplant) I do not buy frozen. I also like supporting my community as they take out the time to grow fresh sell locally in making a living to support their families.
Enjoy everything fresh and raw FOR SURE!
beautiful basket. i would use it by enjoying
Loving some mango smoothies this summer, had so many I even froze some for a great later!
I love to eat the fruit just raw, nothing beats it in its natural state.
Beautiful basket! I can see taking it to the farmer's market as well as on picnics. Love the design.
I love all the fresh fruit and veggies that summer produces. Also the fresh herbs too. The local farmers market is the place to shop. I do make a lot of fresh tomato sauce to use the year round and incorporate fresh veggies into everything I cook. There is always two huge salads in my fridge; one being a fruit salad. Of course, there is never enough strawberry shortcake to go around. Fresh fruit ice creams. Quiche full of veggies. BLTs. The possibilities are endless!
I enjoy going to my local farmers market on the weekends. The smells alone of fruits make my palette begin to water. Pineapple being my favorite, I eat it constantly during the summer, along with watermelon. Love it!!!!!
i love the basket. It would be great to pick collards and other greens from the garden. they wouldn't get crushed as easy as they do in the plastic bags i normally use.
I love this basket! We are fortunate enough to live within walking distance of our local farmers market. This basket would be great in the wagon next to my little girl!
Every Saturday, Downtown Sarasota, FL has a fantastic farmer's market. A ton of fresh, wholesome goodness would fit nicely into this attractive basket. I love the idea of being hands free while shopping.
This would be great for me when I gather my tomatoes from the garden.
Love the basket! Being the sweet tooth that I am, I always make a blueberry crisp or cobbler and a mixed berry pie for my summer outings — it's not summer without berry pie!
This beautiful basket reminds me of my Grandmother who is 85. I always remember her telling me stories of picking apples and peaches in IL when she was growing up for extra money. They used bushel baskets back then…she still loves to go shopping at the Farmers Market however, this basket is a nostialgic piece. I like the shape and design along w/the visatility this brings. I would enjoy using this basket to go shopping with my grandmother. Thank You!
I bake lots of cobblers and pies. Yum!
We enjoy it fresh from the garden – either raw, or sauteed with some chicken or even added to omlettes.