Summit Produce

Apples are starting to trickle in. Thats home grown apples. I love it when homegrown peaches overlap homegrown apples. How much better does life get? And of course locally grown tomatoes are so good and so healthy for you.

Summit Produce has a great selection of flowers. I usually get all my annuals there. Even this weekend, late as it is to plant, I was able to find some plants to fill in my flower beds. The staff is really nice and gave me a discount because there were only 5 plants in the 6 pack instead of 6. Both the produce and plants areas are pleasant to walk around and the visual displays of merchandise is so tempting.

What other fresh farmer’s market offers a punch card incentive? I’ll wait…
Exactly! After 5 punches you save 10%. Nope it’s not a ton but it’s better than nothing. Now that’s what I call customer appreciation.

Summit is a fixture in the Kirkwood Farmer’s Market, offering food, flowers and merchandise almost all year round, truly a convenience to folks nearby. While it is not the actual farmer, it does bring in seasonal produce as well as foodstuffs that have traveled some distance. The staff is super helpful and attentive — ready to carry your purchases to your car, almost insistent, in fact.
Summit carries a nice variety of favorite plants like annuals, native perennials and others, tropicals, and hanging baskets. The prices aren’t low, but they aren’t cray cray high, either. Keep your eye out for discounts. During the summer, for one reason or another, you may be able to find some deep discounts. This is particularly true at the end of the season. I have purchased weigla for 2 bucks a bush and found similar bargains on other things. Keep your eyes peeled.
They bring in baked goods, like pies, which are adequate but not stellar. There is also a selection of grass fed beef and specialty meats and cheeses. I really haven’t gotten into those, as they are in a product category that doesn’t interest me so much.

I had no intention of getting a tree this year until I walked by this place.
The trees looked healthy and smelled wonderful.
Everyone was very gracious and were there to help.
They wrap the trees up in netting so that the branches are not all over the place if you have to put in the back of your car (my seats lay down :)).
They also have neat and cheap tree stands they can put on for you! The stands have a little valley around the tree, creating a small moat so that the water can sit in it and the tree can sip as needed. I might have been a little too excited about this as I remember every year the struggle to put the tree in the dumb tree stand. :p I just took it home to my sinus cold husband and BAM it was done! hehe.
Prices seemed reasonable to me but I do not know what trees go for these days.
They have trees of all sizes! HUGE to small, as I got the later.
Over all I am VERY happy that I got my small tree here. It smells wonderful and Christmas is just that much better for it.
I want to check out what they sell in the summer!
It is a neat place.