I recently watched the documentary “Food Inc” and was really disturbed by what I saw. I want to eat seasonally and buy food from local farms here in New Jersey, but it all seems so complicated. Either to have to buy a big amount (certainly of meats) or wait for the Farmer’s Market once or twice a week. Is there an easier way somewhere online to buy local, organic cruelty free food? I live in Hoboken.
Joanne, thanks for the honest answer.
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I know you are doing your best to do what is right, but you are letting this become a terrible problem for yourself. There really is NO true green foods. The water comes from under the ground or from a city’s water supply. Some green farms use chemicals that you don’t even know about. My husband is 83 and I am 73. We have always eaten grocery store fruits and veggies. We are still alive and very healthy. And so are our grown children, grand children, and great grand children. Always wash your fruits and vegetables because many hands have touched it. Then eat and enjoy.
By the way, cooking foods kill whatever it is you are afraid of.
It’s great that you have seen Food Inc and it has opened your eyes.
Eating locally straight from the farm is a lot more inconvenient than just going to the grocery 24/7. But it is this no thinking convenience that got us into trouble in the first place. When food got to easy to access we quit thinking about it or considering it’s importance. And this allowed the food corporations to develop factory farming/industrial food and to keep the where and how of our food system a complete mystery to most eaters.
So from the convenient industrial system you get mystery food like substances but it is cheap (well its only cheap because out tax money pays for the billions in farm subsidies to make industrial processed food seem cheap), we don’t have to know how to actually cook to prepare these items for eating (ready to eat/heat and eat) and it is available all over the place all the time.
But now you know that crap is bad to eat and you want to eat better. Welcome to my world. I am a small farmer who sells direct to my customers via farmers markets, farm store and a CSA. I also eat 90% of my diet locally and I stay away from anything with HFCS, GMO’s or Hydrogenated oils which is pretty much all processed foods.
One of your problems is you picked the worst time of year to go local. We are about 6 to 8 weeks from the start of the harvest season. There are not many farmers markets open until May or June. there is not much choice in the food this time of year-meat, leafy greens some roots like parsnips and potatoes. Maybe some winter squash still
First check out http://www.localharvest.org for a list of all the farmers markets within 30 miles of you. You will have to get used to the fact you will have to pre plan your meals and buy most of what you need from local sources once or twice a week.
Right now I have a monthly farmers market so I buy the meat I need for the coming month. This is not hard to do but will take some practice if you are used to going out to the store any time you felt you needed food. if you feel you need to shop daily be prepared to drive a lot every day sourcing food from different farms. I think you find it much more efficient to find a couple of farmers markets to go to every week and start thinking ahead at least a few days.
You can also grow some of you own if you have any kind of balcony or better a yard. You do not need land. All you need are some largish pots to plant vegetable seeds into and than months of TLC. You won’t be able to grow more than maybe 1% to 2% of what you eat but it will give you a better understanding of what we do in order to eat.
And remember you are buying direct from farmers. We are not an entity like Wal-Mart, we are real flesh and blood people who work long, often brutally hard hours to produce sublime food. Usually pretty much by hand, on small acreage for far less money than most suspect. We do not have a PR staff, marketing staff, etc. And that is why we are not open 24/7. if we were it would kill us all and than you have no option other than industrial factory farmed food. So realize this is something you will have to get used to in order to participate.
Joan, I respectfully have to disagree that there is no green food. I have been growing such for over 15 years. There are profound difference as to how food is grown between industrial farms and small farms. True not all are organic and you do have to do a lot of your own investigative foot work. But there are differences.
I also take issue that you can wash away all the bad stuff. Wrong. You cannot wash away GMO’s they are a part of the DNA. And you cannot wash away a lot of pesticides as they become a part of the food (i.e. they get absorbed by the plant). Not to mention when you wash the chems off they just go into the water system so you end up contaminating the water supply unknowingly.
Joan, you need to see Food Inc and learn a few things about the Industrial food system where 98% of the US Population gets its food. You will se the system is broken and that the corporations who feed us care far more about profits and shareholders than about our health.