Get there before it’s gone
The bittersweet truth about local produce is that just doesn’t last. One week it seems like fresh tomatoes are everywhere and just a few short weeks later, they’ve vanished, leaving us with nothing but their cardboard-tasting cousins to fill the void until next summer. This is all to say ... get it while it last. Local residents have two more Saturdays -- Oct. 19 and 26 -- to stock up at the Durango Farmers Market before it’s over. The market runs from 9 a.m. to noon at the First National Bank parking lot. If you miss out, at least there’s still the holiday markets to look forward to. Those take place 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 23 and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 14 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. But don’t expect to find fresh tomatoes there because the reality is, you live in Southwest Colorado.
-- Katie Burford
