After several trips to the only local grocery store, a very small IGA, it became apparent that not only was I not going to see any local food, but there isn't any organic either! With the exception of Horizon Organic Skim Milk. I don't want skim milk! If I'm not buying raw milk, I prefer whole milk. Their egg choices are store brand or Egg and I Farm (which is local but is also your typical inhumane egg farm with miserable birds in tiny cages). If I can't have fresh eggs, I'd at least like to be able to buy free range organic eggs.
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| No thank you! |
I just find it incredible that moving to farm country could make it more difficult to get fresh produce, meat, eggs, and dairy! I even checked MMC's most recommended website, localharvest.org and found nothing in my area!
My plan, for now, is to go to the small organic farmer's market in the city on Thursdays during my lunch and to make a list of things we need so that if I find myself there on Wednesday or Saturday I can pick up what we need without making a special trip on another day. I will have to pick up cat food in larger quantities, too, until I come up with a better solution.
My plan in the long run is to build a coop and buy some laying hens, plant a nice garden, buy a deep freezer, and buy meat in bulk from the farmer I was using before the move.
Do you live in a rural area or tiny town? Have you encountered similar obstacles? What did you do?
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I live in the country and raise my own eggs, i would not go back!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain :( We have nothing organic here either. It's very disappointing when you're trying to keep your family healthy. I wish we could move to the country and raise our own chickens and a milk cow.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have a whole coop, but we had a few chickens at home and once you go truly organic, you just cannot go back! We ate the chickens, too. :'( Childhood trauma.
ReplyDeleteWe live in the country but our community has really made an effort to market the Farmers Markets around here!
ReplyDeleteI'd think living in the country it would be easier to get such items.Luckily where we live we're near the city,farms,ocean, and mountains.The attitudes here are a bit backward.
ReplyDeletei live in the country too. if i had the money, i would totally get a chicken coop and raise my own chickens. i wish i knew how to grow my own veggies and fruits too but everything needs money which we just don't have right now!
ReplyDeleteWe raise our own chickens and love it. We have 2 coops 1 has about 20 chickens and the other close to 100 it's great for our kids to learn other ways of living by taking care of the chickens and they love collecting eggs and selling them.
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited to be finally getting chickens! I hope to have the coop ready by spring so we can bring home our first chicks!
DeleteI can definitely relate. We moved from a large city (where you could pick between grocery stores) to a rural town with one store. Their produce is nearly rotten when we bring it home so by the end of the week we have no produce. There are no natural food stores within a reasonable distance. We have looked into using internet stores but they can be so expensive and many times you have to buy in bulk (which for us means more wasted product). It is so frustrating!
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what I am finding! We just finished moving this week, but on my agenda is to build a compost bin and a chicken coop and till a garden! Hoping by this time next year I won't need the grocery stores eggs and produce :)
DeleteI live in the city but we have an amazing farmers market here with farm fresh eggs
ReplyDeleteWhen we were living in the city we frequented two small all-organic farmer's markets and also had a very large farmer's market nearby. There were several health food grocers and the grocery stores carried lots of local product (meat and veggies). It amazes me that I am surrounded by farm land and cannot locate anything grown here for sale in this town!
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