alt Hacker NewsIt sounds like you need me to visit your market ( or my market... It only takes one super user per market and I assure you I am almost always there), film everything and then feed that into your website. I like the idea, but it's not complex for my fanatical farmers market mind. It only has two geographic regions and okay 1 is only hours driving from me, but I would be more likely to use it if it was my own region.
Also it has a picture of an avocado and no data about avocados.
And don't get me started on the market availability between the first hour and the last hour because if I keep losing all the caviar limes to the restaurant buying the whole batch I'm going to start camping at 6am.
Some things I hunt for: Concord grapes, pomegranate, caviar limes, raspberries, mara des bois strawberries, amaranth and all types of kale.
ETA: the early girl tomatoes I recall as end of May or June, probably mid June for you. Too late now I think. Those little orange oblong ones are good though and my favorite breed of tomato is Japanese tomatoes. They have almost 100 percent availability at my market too because they have a specialist grower who uses green houses.
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Are people really driving hours to get to farmers markets? The carbon footprint of that feels like irony.
> Also it has a picture of an avocado and no data about avocados.
If you're referring to the middle left picture in SF, that's actually a plum from Vacaville, CA: https://pomological.art/watercolors/POM00005135.
There's some code to prefer the produce you select, but there really aren't that many unique fruits in the collection; just lots of varietals of the same fruit.
https://pomological.art/watercolors is pretty neat. You can see that there's 3788 apple drawings, far more than any other, and it quickly dies down to 959 peaches and 445 pears. For any given region, there's only like ~7 unique fruits to draw from.