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State Farmers Market is my absolute favorite for convenience, quality, and prices.
I'd support the State Farmers Market over Whole Foods any day. Just gotta get out there and shop! The last time we were there, we could only drive around and look at the produce from the car as they were closing up. It looked way better than I'd seen at the store.
Then call it regional rather than local. There's nothing wrong with calling the food what it is (regional). Calling it local is misleading imo.
I live an hour from the Michigan/Ohio border, and 20 minutes from Windsor Ontario (Canada). Should those be regional as well? I consider them local. I buy stuff from Traverse City and that's farther away than Ohio and Canada, and it's in the same state as me. Does that make it local? I've also bought items from the upper peninsula and that's a four hour drive and across a bridge. The difference in local or regional mean almost nothing to me. I just want good products without a bunch of crap in or on it. The closer to my home the better.
Btw farmers markets aren't always the best either. I went to one last year, and almost everyone there was buying from an Amish farm a couple hundred miles away. Only 2 out of the 15 or so there grew their own food. Obviously not all are like that, but you need to ask questions when you buy from these people. However there are farmers markets that I absolutely love and spend quite a bit of money at.
I live an hour from the Michigan/Ohio border, and 20 minutes from Windsor Ontario (Canada). Should those be regional as well? I consider them local. I buy stuff from Traverse City and that's farther away than Ohio and Canada, and it's in the same state as me. Does that make it local? I've also bought items from the upper peninsula and that's a four hour drive and across a bridge. The difference in local or regional mean almost nothing to me. I just want good products without a bunch of crap in or on it. The closer to my home the better.
Btw farmers markets aren't always the best either. I went to one last year, and almost everyone there was buying from an Amish farm a couple hundred miles away. Only 2 out of the 15 or so there grew their own food. Obviously not all are like that, but you need to ask questions when you buy from these people. However there are farmers markets that I absolutely love and spend quite a bit of money at.
You're talking about a completely different part of the country. Here in the Triangle it's pretty clear cut what would be considered local and what wouldn't be. And our main farmers market has a rule that if you want to be in the main building, everything's got to be grown in NC, and of those folks the vast majority of them have farms within an hour of the market
What's your favorite grocery to pick up healthy food items, and why?
I also like the Whole Foods on Wade Ave in Raleigh because it's spacious and their produce always looks inviting.
I find the Whole Foods on Wade Avenue to be cramped and too crowded to really enjoy most of the time. Their parking situation is horrendous and nine times out of ten, I'll drive to the Cary WF to avoid the Wade Ave WF.
As a bonus, the Cary WF had a cute butcher. Haven't seen him in a while, oh well.
To be fair on this whole local/non local debate, in general, local foods are foods that are within a certain hours worth of driving, and WF is pretty open about what areas those foods come from. I think it's within an 8-hour drive, but I could be a little off on that. Usually where those foods comes from are bulleted on the maps as well.
Whole Foods wade bakery ladies are cuties
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I'd support the State Farmers Market over Whole Foods any day. Just gotta get out there and shop! The last time we were there, we could only drive around and look at the produce from the car as they were closing up. It looked way better than I'd seen at the store.
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