Market day, most days.

The Sunday-morning ritual, ten minutes down Lindero Canyon in the plaza lot on Agoura Road. Flowers, stone fruit, pastry stands, and free parking — the market you fold into a normal weekend without planning for it.

The Conejo Valley's original certified market, running since 1991 in the east lot of The Oaks. Ventura County growers selling what they picked that morning — vine-ripened everything, plus the mid-week excuse to plan dinner around what looks best.

One of LA County's best-loved markets, set against the western storefronts of Old Town Calabasas. The Saturday-morning destination run — fifteen minutes east on the 101, worth every one of them for the vendor roster alone.

A working 200-acre farm with pick-your-own fields, a farm stand, and animal centers — the place Conejo Valley kids grow up picking strawberries. Just under twenty minutes north on the 23, and the answer for any day that isn't market day.

The nearest grocery run of all, on the Thousand Oaks Boulevard corridor. Close enough that a forgotten ingredient is a seven-minute fix, with the rotating seasonal finds that have a cult of their own.

The Conejo Valley's white-tablecloth grocer — a full-service butcher, sushi and wine departments, and a prepared-foods counter that does the dinner-party heavy lifting. The grown-up grocery run, straight down Westlake Boulevard.

The everyday organic workhorse, directly across from The Oaks. Full butcher and seafood counters, a deep prepared-foods hall, and the 365 lineup that keeps the weeknight basket honest.

LA's cult organic grocer and smoothie temple is thirteen freeway minutes away in Calabasas today — and opening its first Ventura County store at The Lakes at Thousand Oaks this summer, which will put it about seven minutes from the front gate. The neighborhood is about to get even harder to leave.