Farmers Markets on Hospital Grounds

I’m all for hospitals showing patients how to eat healthy, but a farmer’s market right on the premises? That’s the case for some hospitals. One CNN article says that “The concept of farmers markets at hospitals is not entirely new, but it has started to spread — to places like Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, University of California San Francisco Medical Center in California, and the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.”

I used to work in a hospital kitchen, and it was interesting to cook our meals and talk to the patients and staff about what we had made and why. I suppose having a farmer’s market takes that a step further, where the hospital ends up showing patients what kind of foods to buy.

What do you think? Would you attend a farmer’s market at your local hospital? Would it matter if you were a patient there or not?

Image: Cherie Burbach