When I head to the grocery store, I know exactly what I am getting and how much. I march in with a purpose and cruise in and out of aisles grabbing a weeks worth of something while clipping digital coupons along the way. Its a chore. A have-to-do. When I set out for theContinue reading “Farmer’s Market Best Practices”
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The Marketing Fluff Behind Food Labels
We are thrown a lot of marketing terms in the course of a day for every product under the sun. Some of the most controversial are on food labels. “Organic food” became all the rage in mainstream USA society when the USDA changed their standards in 2002. The irony of “Organic Produce” was that itContinue reading “The Marketing Fluff Behind Food Labels”
3 Simple Ways to Financially Support Your Local Farms
Farmers get a bad rap, don’t they? Which is crazy because day in and day out they are grow food for the majority of the country. Not because we can’t grow our own food, but because we simply don’t want to. Wheels, fast food, washing machines and other convenience products made it so that weContinue reading “3 Simple Ways to Financially Support Your Local Farms”