[Vigilanteman]

Big ag likes to grow all of their produce of limited varieties in a few selected locations and truck it cross-country. Here in southwest PA, the grocery stores offer apples which have been trucked in from Washington.

If you want apples with flavor, you have to buy them in season from a local farmer's market or travel the next county or two over to buy them from the Amish.

Our grocers won't buy from the Amish due to shelf life issues. When you make shelf life your primary objective, you must necessarily sacrifice flavor. The very properties which give produce their flavors (rich natural fructose and the like) also shorten their shelf life.

[Impala64ssa]

Here in southwest PA, the grocery stores offer apples which have been trucked in from Washington
Same thing here in FL. We live just 1 hr from Pant City, which calls itself the strawberry capital of the world, yet not only the WallyWorlds but the local Publix and Winn-Dixies get their strawberries from Cal.