Local Produce Lover Gifts

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

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

Apples for sale

We need a new eco project. Ok. Let's get locally grown food into the school cafeteria. What's our strategy? We can start with the potatoes. I'll make the poster. We want home fries.

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

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?

See you at the farmers market!

At the market

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."

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

Sustainability files, ways to reduce your carbon footprint

Berries, Roots, Tubers, Stems, Leaves.

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

Mom? Eco club is starting a campaign to eat local food. Good idea. Would you please pack me a lunch from organic stuff grown near here? Ok. I'm sure we have something. Thanks! Oh, boy. A beet sandwich.

Grocery Shopping

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!

As soon as he began speaking Manuel's Spanish accent was unmistakeable and he was evicted from the Local food group.

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

"Say it with Pierogies"

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!

Fresh picked baseballs.

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

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

Man on Stilts in a Market

"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

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

'Fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, nuts, berries, roots, tubers, stems, leaves.'

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

'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.