Buy Local Produce

Other than the expense, I absolutely love going to out local Whole Foods market. But I've noticed some things at Whole Foods that absolutely need to be fixed ... specifically, their reliance on importing produce from great distances when hardly necessary.

On a recent visit to Whole Foods, I found tomatoes imported from Holland and snow peas imported from Peru (next to the locally grown cranberries).

Peruvian peas? That's nuts.

Here it is, the first week of October and there are still plenty of locally-grown Jersey tomatoes. Snow peas can be easily grown in the Garden State until late in the fall. Buying local produce makes tons of economic and ecologic sense.

Maybe Whole Foods knows how crazy this is ... because as soon as I snapped this shot of the Peruvian snow peas, I was told by a Whole Foods employee that I was not allowed to take pictures in the store. Are they that sensitive to the local produce issue?

So I went home and took a picture in my backyard garden ... of my own snow peas ... happily growing in the October sun. It doesn't get any more local then that.