We got our Friends and Farms basket Thursday, just in time for the Buy Local Challenge.
I am happy to see at the Buy Local Website that they don’t require the farms and markets to be in Maryland. Just “local”.
Depending on where you live, food from across a state line may be more local than in state. Like for us. Cheese from Lancaster is closer than cheese from Firefly Farms in western MD. Not that we don’t love Firefly. It’s just that MD is a wide east west but narrow north south state.
For us, foods from MD, VA, WV, DE and PA are all considered local. Mostly within a 100 mile radius to our home.
Our Friends and Farms basket this week was full of local foods by that definition. We can take the Buy Local “Extreme” challenge and include local foods in every meal, using the goodness of our basket.
The pork butt and bacon came from York PA. The chicken from Freebird, in the Lancaster area of PA. The eggs, from MD.
Clinton MD. We also get some vegetables from Miller Farms too.
This week the lettuce was from Salisbury MD. That’s where Baywater Greens is located.
The berries, from VA. Agriberry blackberries.
We also got jalapenos. Cilantro. Sweet corn. Green peppers. An eggplant. Elephant garlic.
I added a quart of plain yogurt. Need to make tzatziki while the cucumbers are still producing.
It will be easy to eat locally with all this food. Along with my garden and my CSA. Who needs grocery stores? Oh yeah, toilet paper.
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