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What do you consider local?
When you are buying produce at the store, how far do you consider local still?
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I don't really consider it local but I have stopped buying anything outside of the US. I am slowly changing my buying habits with a goal of buying only from surrounding states.
Living in the midwest, we don't have many options for produce this time of year and I couldn't just cut everything out of our diet overnight. As I figure out how to preserve/freeze the growing season supply I will try to cut back.
Same here. I'm in North Texas, so Oklahoma and possibly Louisianna would also be somewhat "local" for me.
At the grocery store, I consider local to be from VA, MD, DC, or PA. I live in northern VA, so PA is only a few hours away. Our farmer's market is a producer only market (whice I LOVE), so vendors can only sell what they grow. I think the vendor that comes the farthest to my market is ~90 miles.
ETA: And I do not buy produce from outside the U.S., with the exception of avocados from Mexico b/c they're too damn good
Asparagus from Peru in November? No thank you!
Hmmm...I am just starting a more local effort, and I haven't thought much about it. I guess I would consider local to be PA, NY, NJ, and maybe DE. I live in the Poconos in PA. I hope to buy most of my produce from farms right here in the Poconos this summer.
I will continue to buy avocados and bananas from non-local sources because there is neither an avocado season nor a banana season here in PA!
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For most things, except maybe milk, all of Sweden is local. Granted, it is a long country, but not much is grown in the north so all the food comes from the bottom fourth of the country.
There are some things which you can't grow here, like corn and rice. These things we buy organic and don't eat that much of.
We still buy bananas, but we choose the Fairtrade ones. At least then we can feel good about the lives of the workers who picked them being bettered.
For a grocery store I consider local to by my province.
It really varies for me, and I think more about what I am supporting than it being next door. The truth is its not really the food miles (transportation oil usage) that make up the most petroleum use, its the farming methods. And what I am really against is this system we have where there is so much monopolization of power, crops, and availability.
So local to me is often right here within western washington, because we have so many farms, but it might be alaska, because I consider dungeness crab local. We're the first port it and much salmon comes to, but no, Alaska isn't all that close. Generally I consider supporting local industries from Alaska that are tied to Seattle, and anywhere in the Pacific NW (Oregon, BC and WA to be very local). But then I'll admit I've got excessive PNW pride.
But do I feel bad buying something from Vermont, or Colorado, or even New Zealand? Heck no. Not if its made well, and not replacing something I could easily get locally, and is a company I want to support. I get this fantastic blue cheese from an island off Australia. Can I get blue cheese locally? Sure, I can, but I like this better, and its a very small dairy, making a unique, high-end product.
On the other hand, Hawaii is pretty darn close (again we're one of the first stops on the supply chain) but I won't buy Dole pineapples, from Hawaii or anywhere else. I will buy an organic small-farm Florida grapefruit, but not a Florida tomato.
I really do like supporting local, and living it strictly was a fun experiment, but I don't think its the only factor to consider. Local =/= sustainable, humane and good business practices, nor should a sustainable, humane good business necessarily be discounted because its not local.