Echo Park Farmers' Market launches basket program

Starting next Friday, March 11, the Echo Park Farmers' Market will offer a Healthy Market Basket program through which subscribers can purchase baskets of fresh, healthy produce from local growers.

Participants will have their choice of two baskets each week:

• Fresh Market Basket - features 8 to 10 farmers' market produce items (e.g. bunch of carrots, pound of apples); $22 per week
• Healthy Market Basket - features 13 to 16 farmers' market produce items; $29 per week

Sign-up for a basket online at shop.farmernet.com and then pick it up on Fridays between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. and the Echo Park Farmers' Market (in the parking lot on Logan Street south of Sunset Blvd.).