You know I can't see how Choices stays in business or has regular customers. All of the organic stuff is through the roof. We actually got a pretty good system down where we bought organic and dairy in the US and brought that north to Canada and we got meat and oil/rice and brought that stuff down.
I almost think the "buy local" isn't about supporting the little guy as much as it's "soak the locals"...
If I drive around say...South Surrey or Delta and there's all of these farms, I cross an imaginary line into Lynden or Ferndale and I see farms, roads, homes, trees, etc that all look the same, why does the local farmer's market on Birch Bay-Lynden Road charge half what the place on Steveston does?
A few weeks ago on CFUN they were talking about these co-ops where you paid about $500 with a group of other people and picked up a ton of fruits and vegetables every Saturday for about 6 months. You didn't actually choose what you got. Some was grown in GVRD, some in the Okanagan, some things abroad, bananas and whatnot, but it was very cheap. The key thing I remember was that it was less than $1/lb, meaning people got more than 500 pounds of fruits and vegetables for their $500 investment. If it were 600 pounds, that's 100lb/mo. or 20lb/wk., which is probably adequate. I guess you can supplement at Buy-Low or something.
I was open to trying that this year had I been there from April-October (or whatever the time frame was)...I think it was on Jen and Joe, but I can't recall. Might be something to enquire about.
I should have mentioned, because I thought the same. One of the hosts brought that up, and the customer said "oh, we all go between 8 and noon on Saturdays, so if you get something you don't want, you can find someone to trade with" or whatever.
They also said that sometimes they got a lot of extras of things they didn't think they could possibly eat, but they got into caning and storing and that even during the off-months of the winter, the food was still paying dividends.
Even guinea pigs are picky! I've had several guinea pigs over the years, and they each had their own tastes. Some eat nearly everything, while some were more fussy.
I almost think the "buy local" isn't about supporting the little guy as much as it's "soak the locals"...
If I drive around say...South Surrey or Delta and there's all of these farms, I cross an imaginary line into Lynden or Ferndale and I see farms, roads, homes, trees, etc that all look the same, why does the local farmer's market on Birch Bay-Lynden Road charge half what the place on Steveston does?
A few weeks ago on CFUN they were talking about these co-ops where you paid about $500 with a group of other people and picked up a ton of fruits and vegetables every Saturday for about 6 months. You didn't actually choose what you got. Some was grown in GVRD, some in the Okanagan, some things abroad, bananas and whatnot, but it was very cheap. The key thing I remember was that it was less than $1/lb, meaning people got more than 500 pounds of fruits and vegetables for their $500 investment. If it were 600 pounds, that's 100lb/mo. or 20lb/wk., which is probably adequate. I guess you can supplement at Buy-Low or something.
I was open to trying that this year had I been there from April-October (or whatever the time frame was)...I think it was on Jen and Joe, but I can't recall. Might be something to enquire about.
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That would not work for me. I'd probably get tons of bananas, pineapples, eggplant, zucchini, and a bunch of other fruits and veggies I hate!
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They also said that sometimes they got a lot of extras of things they didn't think they could possibly eat, but they got into caning and storing and that even during the off-months of the winter, the food was still paying dividends.
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