Another option is CSA (community supported agriculture), both in the US and Canada. Mostly vegetables and fruit, but also things like honey, meat and eggs. I’ve even seen cheese and butter and other processed goods. This may be the way I go to start eating in the future.
Judy, this link is specific for Canada and I bet y’all already know about it. https://knowwhereyourfoodcomesfrom.com/community-supported-agriculture-csa-farms/canada/
Anyone in the US can just search via their favorite method ‘CSA near me’.
Thank you, good link.
Thank you, Spirit.
Natalie ran a little farm market for a few years. She had so many customers. She started out with a CSA where we filled big bushel baskets full of her fresh produce. She also has free-range eggs, honey, every vegetable and some fruit. Plus she sells the free-range lamb, chickens, etc. She then decided to just turn it into a full market stand and it was so nice. Only open 2 days a week, lots of customers, and we even baked pies and offered pickled goods on the sly.
The timing was wrong. Three kids, all under 8 at the time. The garden to offer all of this produce was HUGE. She and the kids spent hours and hours pulling weeds and harvesting, etc. It was just too much. She felt like their young years were being spent hurrying them along to get things done, hours in the garden weeding, getting everything ready for the little store, etc. It was all-consuming. She gave it up, at least for the time being. Now the youngest is coming up for seven.
She hasn’t fully recovered from the busyness of the market, and add home-schooling on top of that. Now she plants almost as big a garden because she’s putting everything down and wants enough food in the freezers (she has six of them) in case of shortages. Scary times. I do as much as I can to help, but at times she gets a little over-whelmed.
Looks like a good link, Spirit. I’m sending it to her. Thanks very much.
I ran into this video a while back when I decided to do a little patio garden. I was going to ping it to Judy back then but got busy and forgot.
This is happening in Canada but it could be happening here in the US also. Except for CA they keep a close watch.
“Farmers market lies exposed: hidden camera investigation. Is the produce you’re buying at the farmers market grown locally? Marketplace goes on an undercover shopping trip and catches vendors lying about where their produce is grown.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwB63YslbA