Christina’s Produce

I always park behind their location at the Farmers Market because they have a door straight into their shop and I buy the most stuff here. I got 4 huge peppers for $ 1, 4 packages of mushrooms for $ 1…that is usually $ 3.99 at the store for just one. They have a lot of workers to help you out as well.

I“ve been visiting this place often for inexpensive produce. You look around and there can be some good buys here.

Probly the largest selection for the best price in the river market. Check out there $ 1 baskets. But make sure you eat them fast.
Geting there early sat or sunday is the best idea so its still fresh.
You dont want it hot out in the sun after all day.

After stopping at Global Produce I walked by Christina’s and noticed they had blueberries for $ 1 a pint. What a great deal so I got a bag and started looking through the selection. The quality was quite poor and I had to dig through quite a few packages before I could find a couple that didn’t have moldy blueberries in the bottom. I was leery of buying any, but went ahead with a couple of packages and hope they don’t go bad quick. Although they have great prices, I would stick with the other vendors.

Owned by the son of the man who owns the Kansas City Produce Market only a few feet away down the City Market stretch. The secret? There is no difference in produce (I asked the father) and he told me honestly.
On a Monday in late October, shopping here felt like shopping in a freezer — it keeps the fruit fresh but it feels kind of backwards — shopping for mango in freezing weather — but that’s Kansas City for you. Being dead everywhere else around City Market, Christina’s Produce was packed (and by packed, I mean five people milling around with plastic sacks). But for being a Monday when most of the other shops are closed, I was surprised by the moderate fruit bustle.
I was told that some of the fruit is local, like squash, pumpkin, and apples and other things that can be grown in the Midwest at this time of the year. Some is imported, obviously — you’d be a fool to believe pineapple is grown locally, but what is grown is purchased by the owners on the weekend during the farmer’s market sale, and then come the weekday it is sold in the stands.
They had cheap $ 1 baskets of tomatoes and bananas (which didn’t look ripe to me, they were past their prime, clearly browning) but the apples looked delicious and the artichokes were HUGE, I mean big. I would pick towards the front of the produce (there is a little back section you can walk through and pick fruit but it’s not as fresh as the fruit sold up front where the people walk by and see it in plain view).
I want to return again this Saturday and see what it’s like at its busiest, talk to the farmers about how and where the produce is grown and talk more specifically to the son who owns this stand — I’d be interested to know what he knows.