There are few better ways to practice healthy eating habits than attending a farmer’s market. Attending a farmer’s market is the best way to understand where your food comes from. Instead of picking food off shelves, interact with farmers themselves, as you understand the labor that goes into producing the food we eat.

To add an even healthier degree of activity to your farmer’s market experience, leave the car at home. These markets are often held in city parks or common areas, thus it is often easiest to walk or ride a bike to the event. Walking home with bags of groceries in hand can be more than simply a shopping experience, its a good form of exercise. 

While farmer’s markets used to be isolated events in the most populated areas, they are now widespread across the country. Luckily, there are tools such as Local Harvest, which feature interactive maps highlighting the farmer’s market nearest to your location: http://www.localharvest.org/search.jsp?lat=41.80912&lon=-86.98455&scale=4