Produce for POTUS: White House Farmers Market

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WE HAVE TO ADMIT, it was a little bit shocking. Even in our fair and security-minded city, we'd never been asked to go through a metal detector at a farmers market before. And are those snipers perched atop a farm truck? We were excited for the opening of a White House Farmers Market, but this was definitely not organic as usual.

But it turns out that the intense security is only present today — and it makes sense, since Michelle Obama and Adrian Fenty were on hand to talk about the importance of local food. We're going to predict that you won't have to wait in lines or get patted down next week.

You'll see the same vendors here that you see at every other farmers market in D.C. — they're all run by the FreshFarm collective, after all. Try the Keswick Creamery chocolate pudding and the bread for the Ovens at Quail Creek Farm, then go crazy with the produce before peaches go out of season and our lives are cold and dark once more.

» White House Farmers Market, Vermont Ave. and I Street NW; Thursdays through Oct. 29, 3 p.m.-7 p.m.; 202-362-8889. (McPherson Square)

Photo by James M. Thresher/The Washington Post