Locally owned produce and grocery stores too.


Today I shambled on over to the nearest little corner grocer, because I can't abide what Save-On charges for, well, anything. Nevermind fruits and veggies they have shipped in from Guatemala or wherever.

At this amazing little place I bought a litre of milk, a baggie o' carrots, fresh snap peas, a bottle of salad dressing, a newspaper, AND some candy.

For 6 bucks.


You try doing THAT at any of the big grocery chains.

meow85 said:

thats how i try and do most of my shopping, i source my food from local farms and small businesses.

i want to know where what i eat comes from and how it was grown. i want to see dirt on my onions, i want my tomatoes to be different sizes, and have some taste

eraclito said:

Me too. Vegetables aren't supposed to be uniform. I happen to like lumpy potatoes with dirt in their eyes. They tend to taste like potatoes instead of cardboard like the grocery store picture-perfect ones do.

Know what freaks me out? Those pre-packaged things of "baby carrots" that are perfectly shaped into little finger-sized pieces.

meow85 said:

seriously, or the rows of mangetout and runner beans all identical clones.

it freaks me out that store bought tomatoes are still hard after a week in the refridgerator.
or straight as a dye cucumbers and the worst culprit, iceberg fucking lettuce..

give me some muddy spinach and earthy ocra any day..

eraclito said:

I hate grocery store strawberries the most. They're grown down in California, then put in a truck before they're ripe and shipped up to Canada still green. They eventually turn red with age, but the lack of proper sun means they just taste like water. What a waste of money.

meow85 said:

oh gosh, dont get me even started on the correct harvesting of fruit,

but you just made me thirst for some sweet blackberries, and i love strawberries..

i mean when was the last time, you bought a peach from a supermarket that actually had any smell of flavour, it looks fucking good, but tastes of nothing.

eraclito said:

God, it's been so long since I bought any fresh produce at a grocery store. But the reasons you said are exactly why I did stop. Expensive as anything, no flavour, and they're not even locally grown.



Luckily for me it's blacberry season now, and there's a HUGE patch of them growing by the road about 7 blocks from here. I don't work until 5 pm tomorrow. I think maybe I'll go get some blacberries in the morning.

meow85 said:

up until a week ago, my back garden was one whole overgrown blackberry bush, i ate, chopped, i ate and chopped...

now its a much smaller blackberry bush, but i got my moneys worth of blackberries..

I love our small town, local organic farmer's tailgate markets we go almost every weekend

Outside Asheville there is a big ole yr round indoor farmers market as well

Our main grocery store here also supports local farmers and often carries fresh produce, meats and those kinda things

We have a little Amish store as well that sells wonderful items

Yeah :lol I love the farmer's markets too

Mach said:

yeah but do they have blackberries...

OED said:

I got blackberries in my yard, well until Dylan eats all of them.
Oh and raspberries too.

OED said:

In season yes

I don't have to buy them because they grow wild all over our property

Mach said:

mine too, unfortunately

OED said:

You have all sorts of stuff growing wild in your garden.

shanti0608 said:

oh shit, i thought i covered the ganja plants up..

well now u know, next week we can roll some shit up.. lol

OED said:

is shambled like shimmy?

Mach said:

i had to work my way through a forest of bramble so i could set up my trampoline. then once i did, it hasn't stopped raining since..



i wanna bounce dammit

OED said:

Trampoline sex is the best

Mach said:

seriously, i agree..

more bounce to the ounce, now all i need is some sun shine and a very drunk woman..

OED said:

I have several Trampoline sex stories

wow ... what a cruise down memory lane Thanx

Mach said:

where u very drunk in any of them

OED said:

Ewwww we were sitting on there. Couldn't you warn a sister first? As if I had not already guessed that. It did not look very broken in yet though.


I happen to know where you can find at least one of those things.


She is a beauty.

shanti0608 said:

i want tell you any of my couch stories then



oh and thank you..

OED said:

Not a single one

Mach said:

There are a few grocery stores around here that do that too, but none are close enough it's worth trying to get to.

This corner grocer is only like a block away from me.

horatio said:

shimmy, shuffle, boogie....

I'm really lucky because we have farmland nearby so have some farm shops and smallholdings around our village. Our nearest town has a farmers market once a month - if I'm home, I love to go.

where the heck are you finding stuff?

$10 for a medium bag of peas
$8 for a medium bag of carrots
$8 for a medium basket of peaches
$6 for a small basket of cherries

i always end up dropping about $50 there.

rasplicious said:

We need pictures of this farmland.