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Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Fresh eater ()
Date: June 19, 2018 08:57PM

Other than your own garden? Whole Foods is a crock of shit. They get their produce from the farms as the other big chains.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Except for one thing ()
Date: June 19, 2018 10:16PM

Q.

What is the hardest part about eating a vegetable?




A.


The wheelchair
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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: plenty of options ()
Date: June 20, 2018 08:52AM

Unless you have a lot of time, money, and land to waste, growing your own isn’t worth it. You’re limited, not everything grows well around here. So if you want a variety, you’ll be spending a whole lot of time, and then be stuck without much when the growing season ends. Gardening is a hobby, not a way to replace stores. Just learn how to pick out good vegetables, learn what’s in season, then find reliable places to buy them.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: farmer dildo ()
Date: June 20, 2018 09:27AM

local Farmers markets are best. Mom's Organic grocery is good too.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Organic Eater ()
Date: June 20, 2018 10:02AM

Buy a CSA farm share with a local organic farm. You can get a very wide variety of organic meats, vegetables, fruits, berries, eggs, herbs, honey, cider, milk, cheeses etc. every week. Some even have beer and wine.

Some of the stuff you get is very high end and will probably be new to you. It definitely expands your culinary horizons in surprisingly delicious ways. Some even provide instructions on great ways to prepare and enjoy the various farm products.

You can also just shop at the stores on various farms.

There are organized farm tours in various towns and counties throughout the summer. You can go on site and see and sample what they have but also see and learn how they grow and operate. Great day for the family outdoors and a great way to teach the kids something new.

Example: http://www.whippoorwillfarmtotable.com

^ Got some incredible organic vegetables, fruit, Mangalitsa pork, Wagyu beef, and a bunch of eggs at this place one weekend. Out of this world.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: June 20, 2018 12:25PM

Before signing up for a CSA try to get hold of a list of what they delivered the previous year. We were with three CSAs over the past five years. The quality of the food we used was good. The people were pleasant. The vegetables and fruits were too much of things we either did not want or had gotten tired of, and too little of what we really wanted. Based on what we actually ate we could have gotten almost as good from farmers markets for half the price, plus we would have greater choice over what we got.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: nskd ()
Date: June 20, 2018 03:10PM

Fruit stands in the country; although some buy wholesale and pass it off as
farm fresh", look in the back yard and you'll see boxes. One stand sells apples, they have about 10 trees, but you can sometimes catch a sticker on an apple that they forgot to remove.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Smitty ()
Date: June 20, 2018 04:42PM

Messick's Farm Market - Bealeton, VA

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: philosophical fruppie ()
Date: June 20, 2018 04:49PM

What is fresh? It is all relative, most are called fresh are just "fresh replacements" for the sold or decaying. That's stupid! What is stupid?

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Mr. Greenthumb ()
Date: June 20, 2018 04:57PM

plenty of options Wrote:
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> Unless you have a lot of time, money, and land to
> waste, growing your own isn’t worth it.
> You’re limited, not everything grows well around
> here. So if you want a variety, you’ll be
> spending a whole lot of time, and then be stuck
> without much when the growing season ends.
> Gardening is a hobby, not a way to replace stores.
> Just learn how to pick out good vegetables, learn
> what’s in season, then find reliable places to
> buy them.


It's more than a hobby. A well sized and maintained home garden can provide a variety of vegetables for much of the summer and into the early fall. Each year, I grow tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, melons, peppers, lettuce, kale and snap peas. Once the early crops complete their growing cycle, they are replaced with fall crops that last usually until Christmas.

Oh, and he's asking what a reliable place to get vegetables is. You restating it doesn't help him.

During off season or of I'm looking for a vegetable I don't grow, local farmer's markets are pretty good. As for chain grocery stores, I've found Harris Teeter for some things and Giant for others. It's strange, for some reason the stores near me don't have similar inventory. I've gotten it down so that if I know what I want, I know which store to get it.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: gotta ask first ()
Date: June 20, 2018 05:05PM

You should ask at a country stand if they use "midnight soil" as a fertilizer, especially on the lettuce. Just a good practice and habit to develop.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Good point ()
Date: June 20, 2018 05:35PM

gotta ask first Wrote:
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> You should ask at a country stand if they use
> "midnight soil" as a fertilizer, especially on the
> lettuce. Just a good practice and habit to
> develop.


That’s what caused the rash of salmonella and other food borne illnesses from romaine lettuce recently. They won’t tell you, but a lot of produce comes from Mexico where the use of night soil is common.

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Re: Where is the best place to get fresh vegetables?
Posted by: Just a sh.tty beeswax ()
Date: June 20, 2018 05:50PM

Good point Wrote:
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> gotta ask first Wrote:
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> > You should ask at a country stand if they use
> > "midnight soil" as a fertilizer, especially on
> the
> > lettuce. Just a good practice and habit to
> > develop.
>
>
> That’s what caused the rash of salmonella and
> other food borne illnesses from romaine lettuce
> recently. They won’t tell you, but a lot of
> produce comes from Mexico where the use of night
> soil is common.


Give them Port a Johnny and we would not be in this shitty mess

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