It's the beginning of March, which means there are 2.5 months until we have outdoor-grown food (besides lettuce) again.
Here's what we get to get us through that 2.5 months:
Culled from a co-op in Northfield and my own knowledge of other co-ops
- Produce
- Lettuce (hydroponically grown)
- Potatoes
- Mushrooms
- Sprouts
- Bulk
- Whole Wheat Flour
- Wild Rice
- Rolled Oats
- Flax Seeds
- Black Beans
- Spaghetti
- Pasta Shells
- Refrigerated/Frozen
- Eggs
- Milk
- Butter
- Yogurt (but it's yucky)
- Tortillas (ingredients locally combined)
- Sour Cream
- Salsa (ingredients locally combined)
- Heavy Cream
- Buttermilk
- Hummus (ingredients locally combined--I'm almost certain not locally grown)
- 3 Bean Chili (ingredients locally combined)
- Bacon
- Round Tip Steak
- Ham
- Whole Chicken
- Bone in Chicken
- Boneless Chicken Breasts
- Preshredded Cheese (seriously, what a waste of local eating for the environment. I avoid this company's overpackaged products, trying to tell them to cut it out!)
- Cheese (many kinds--this is cheese land)
- Chevre Cheese
- Cream Cheese
- Ice Cream (many kinds--this is ice cream land)
- Frozen Pizza (expensive as heck--$11 for a thin-crust pizza--but they really do use locally grown and made spinach, tomatoes, garlic, cheese, etc. whenever they can get it!)
- Frozen Veggies
- Frozen Berries (if you count the far side of the next state over)
- Shelf Goops
- Jam
- Maple syrup
- Dry Shelf Stuff
- Corn Chips (Whole Grain Milling Co.)
- Cereal (Not sure if cold cereals are locally grown & milled or just locally mixed into granola; 1 hot cereal is locally milled, if not also locally grown)
- Bread
- Bread.
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By the way, I compared this to a count of local produce types available in mid-September. There were at least 64 then.
4 vs. 64.
I hope everyone appreciates what a pain in the *** it is to eat healthily in the late winter without either 1) modern transportation or 2) old-growth ecosystems to forage in (which we don't have enough of anymore to feed everyone, so that's out).
:-(
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