text: Eh, this market was OK, but it didn't do it for me.\n\nA farmer's market is supposed to be a market for local farmers to showcase their fresh goods for people to select, buy, and use as they will. During my visit I saw a grand total of one local farmer (from Phil's somethingorother) selling produce - an itty bitty stand at that, with maybe 4 types of vegetables from which to choose. There were two or three other produce vendors, one of them the giant McClendon's, selling a boatload of attractive produce from California and Washington. Um...? I can get that at Whole Foods. There was some local olive oil with no prices listed (I'm sure it's fab, but with no advertised prices, and this being Scottsdale... uh uh).\n\nThere were prepared foods and goods and the like, but that's not what a farmer's market is for, nor is it what I seek in one. I didn't feel any communion with the vendors - some of them didn't seem to care much about what they were selling, or even know how it was grown and traveled from farm to farmer's market. McClendon's just looked like an outdoor grocery store, with multiple checkout lanes and everything. I doubt very much they could tell you the perfect time to pick that varietal of apple or how to best harvest this type of potato, much less have experience doing it themselves.\n\nI understand, this being Arizona and all, there's not a lot of prime agricultural land to be utilized. But things do grow here - prickly pear, anyone? Tomatoes? Melons? Citrus? Herbs? But nobody was selling those. Did I miss the part of the market where the actual market was?\n\nI give it a star for the McClendon's produce being affordable and attractive, a star because they have a couple of stands catering to pets, and a star because their prepared goods looked just fine. But minus a star for missing the point of a farmer's market, and minus a star for having next to 0 locally grown foods.