Rittenhouse Farmers' Market

Rittenhouse Farmers' Market
Walnut St & S 18th St
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Tuesdays 10 am to 1 pm; Mid-May - November
Saturdays 9:30 am to 3 pm; Year round

On November 21st, I visited Rittenhouse Farmers' Market. There were about five or six farm stands who sold products including fruit, vegetable, pastry, yogurt, chocolate etc. I visited three of the farm stands and they all are organic farmers who used different production methods.

1)Rineer Family Farms
Sat. 9:30 am to 3pm at Rittenhouse Square
www.RinnerFamilyFarms.com

*use little amount of chemical pesticide on few crops
*use heat house for greens
*use some GM seeds, which improve the amount of edible food for up to 50%

2)Crawford Organic
387 Iron Bridge Rd
East Earl, PA 17519
crawford_csa@frontier.com
(They will not be at Rittenhouse Square for winter, but they do participate in the CSA program)

*USDA certified organic
*participated in Community Supported Agriculture program(CSA)
*chemical free production
*use "cold-house" which is a heat house using natural heat such as using the heat from the soil.
*no GM products. They also use corn to block the GM pollens from their neighbor farms. These corns are not sold in their farm stands.

3)Hill Top Produce
*use both heat-house and cold-house(naturally heated heat-house)
*use round up pesticide (similar to the pesticide used in household;less harmful than commercial used pesticide)