Local Produce Advocate Pillows

'It's all local, except for the fish. They're from the ocean.'

Apples for sale

Don't mind us. We're just trying to eat more locally grown food.

'Have you been 'helping the environment by supporting local produce' again?'

At the market

See you at the farmers market!

Our farmer brought fresh beans, tomatoes, corn and squash this week. Nice. You should have bought into the farm share. I've got my own farmer. Mine's cheap. Mine's cheaper. Thanks, mom. You can't take more zucchini?

A corner market is taken over by suburban sprawl.

"This is locally grown and good for the environment, but it may give you greenhouse gas."

"Just a couple of ninety cent seed packets, and you can have fresh garden vegetables for heaven knows how long."

What are we doing today? Installing raised beds. Then we'll plant them for a couple who want organic vegetables. Brilliant, Dad. Tree's Tree Nursery. You take the hard work out of gardening. Right. And give it to me! Right again!

"Oh, no - not another farmer's market!"

Berries, Roots, Tubers, Stems, Leaves.

As I say, local produce, locally produced; all our meats tonight come form our local meat processing plant.

Produce Market. Lots of things are going on with the produce. The tomatoes, as usual, are having a fruit or veggie identity crisis. Though it makes no sense, the apples and oranges are constantly comparing themselves to one another. The plums are happy. Any assignment or position that comes their way is always the best. That potatoes want couches, of course. And the bananas think they should run the market government. Sure, a banana republic!

Grocery Shopping

Let's all go to a farmer's market.

"Summer's here. Do you want to start talking incessantly about tomatoes or corn?"

F&E Produce. I had interesting customers today. First, a beautician checked out the purple potatoes and yellow beets. Ah, a hair stylist inspected the colored roots! That card shark bought some fruit. Two pears, I'll bet! A journalist was searching for an onion alternative. He needs leeks! And labor negotiators requested to increase their usual vegetable order. They asked for a celery hike, eh? I think the customers are the best part of this job. Yeah, you never know who will turnip!

"No, we don't have field to plate provenance for each bean."

"Come on, honey, try just one Goliath pea. It's organic, locally grown, and GMO free."

Man on Stilts in a Market

Fresh picked baseballs.

"So I can eat better here at work."

'If you want produce grown on the farm down the road you'll have to go to Kuala Lumpur.'

Fresh vegetables for sale / Pick your own for even fresher vegetables.

Large Very Fresh Eggs

Illuminating agricultural production

"Elaine! The avocados are ripe—what do we do? What do we do?"

'This is my wife Hilda, who is quite a tomato herself!'

'It's a feisty little potato of Scottish origins, with a reddish complexion, whiskery appearance, waxy character and slight tendency to small mischief; spring-sown into well-drained soil on the south of the Island it has been hand-reared by. . .'

Meet the layer.

"There. Straight from the organic veggie patch. The world's most expensive carrot."

Organic farm

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