I once drove home from a produce run with a crate of tomatoes buckled into the passenger seat like a guest of honor. Florida still has markets where fruit and vegetables leave by the box, the case, and the heaping flat, not in a flimsy plastic sleeve.
They look plain from the road, all tin roofs and pickup trucks, yet one stop can stock a freezer and fill a weekend of canning. Bring a cooler, clear the back seat, and pace yourself.
1. Immokalee State Farmer’s Market, Immokalee, FL
Fifty-pound sacks of onions do not fit in a shopping basket, and nobody here expects them to. Immokalee sits deep in the farm country of Southwest Florida, roughly an hour inland from Naples, and its state market runs at wholesale scale.
Can you shop without leaving the driver’s seat? Mostly, yes…