Sappington Farmer's Market on Watson is a great locally owned grocery store that carries many local products. My favorite part is that they have $10 off $50 purchase every Thursday. You can print the coupon from home or pick one up on their add in-store. The also have a rewards program in which you can accumalate points for free products. And they have a CSA as well, though I've not had experience with it to share with you.
From their website:
"We’re the Missouri Farmer Owned Supermarket
Sappington Farmers Market is owned by a Missouri Cooperative effort of Small Family Farmers and Rural Entrepreneurs producing food the way it should be — naturally."
Here are my top picks:
- Store made peanut butter---yummy, it's found in the cheese case in the back of the store
- Windcrest Dairy Farms Yogurt--we love it! from Trenton, IL, cows not given hormones or antibiotics (unless they are sick), comes in regular and Greek styles, vanilla and plain
- Raw local honey
- local free range eggs in paper cartons
- gluten free products if you need them
- pork from Todd Geisert Farms in Washington, MO
- local and hormone/antibiotic free chicken and beef, though I find this to be less predictable
- Salmon from Alaska caught and brought back by local fishermen
I like a lot about this store. In fact I am there almost every week. What I wish they did a better job of is labeling where the produce labeled "homegrown" come from. Are they local? Can I research the farm to find out what their practices and philosophies are? A lot of time I end up not buying a product because I don't have this information and it might be exactly what I am looking for.
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