When I realized I'd spent $35 at the farmer's market today, I thought I'd have to sit down and consider if cost effective trumps ethics and/or morality, and if it does, when it does
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It's interesting that the local stuff from the farmers market is almost the same price as the force-grown stuff at the store. You must have a great farmers market.
nomoremermaids and I keep meaning to go to the Socorro one, but forget when it is on weekends. From what I've seen, it's not too impressive.
Ah, to be in a town where you can buy decent groceries...
DC has lots of good farmers' markets, but I didn't know we had any that were year round. I had originally figured on having to buy big grocery until May
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I'm sure that the quality is good. Selection... not so much.
It's not a matter of being a long walk, it's a matter of waking up early that day and saying "hey, food!".
A family friend of mine is now doing fundraising for the Santa Fe farmer's market. As you can imagine, she's pretty into it. Those are the standard arguments for the concept. It's easy to respond with "meh, Socorro", but that's not really how I feel these days. It might be a while before I leave, so I should have some interest in the town :)
Yeah, selection is a bummer. As it waking up in the morning. I get that, but I think you'll find it worth it in the end. The connections I made with the farmers, though they were temporary, I valued very much. It's a bit hard to explain, but I think it would help with the interest you mentioned, and I am confident nomoremermaids would feel the same thing.
Yes, and I actually have a metric ass-ton of coupons for you because of it. It's worked out fairly well for the two of us, but it has been odd. I think it would work much better for your family, though it's worth it even for our little family.
See, dear, that's the thing. We keep saying it's not affordable, but I'm really not sure I believe that so much anymore. I think we're seeing rates that are kept artificially low on conventional products through a variety of means, and I think the end price is coming out of our environment, our ethics and our pockets. I couldn't swear to this, not by any means, but I'm coming more and more to this conclusion.
I'm trying to remember the name of the guy in Arizona who ate nothing that wasn't produced within his watershed (~250 mile radius of his house) for a full year. Apparently it was hard at first, but much easier and educational as time went on. He was written up in Discover magazine several years ago, back when we were both at Tech. I think I was living in the deathtrap at the time. Maybe it was the house after that. Gary something.
Anyway, after we moved here there was a lecture by Brian Halweil at the Zoo, promoting his book, "Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket." At the time I'd forgotten all of the name of
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nomoremermaids and I keep meaning to go to the Socorro one, but forget when it is on weekends. From what I've seen, it's not too impressive.
Ah, to be in a town where you can buy decent groceries...
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It's not a matter of being a long walk, it's a matter of waking up early that day and saying "hey, food!".
A family friend of mine is now doing fundraising for the Santa Fe farmer's market. As you can imagine, she's pretty into it. Those are the standard arguments for the concept. It's easy to respond with "meh, Socorro", but that's not really how I feel these days. It might be a while before I leave, so I should have some interest in the town :)
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Tell your friend I wish her the best of luck.
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I'm trying to remember the name of the guy in Arizona who ate nothing that wasn't produced within his watershed (~250 mile radius of his house) for a full year. Apparently it was hard at first, but much easier and educational as time went on. He was written up in Discover magazine several years ago, back when we were both at Tech. I think I was living in the deathtrap at the time. Maybe it was the house after that. Gary something.
Anyway, after we moved here there was a lecture by Brian Halweil at the Zoo, promoting his book, "Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket." At the time I'd forgotten all of the name of ( ... )
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