Well, our experiment with Green Earth Organics was a bust. In the three weeks we used the service we ended up with tomatoes from Mexico, oranges from California and apples from British Columbia. So much for local food from local farmers. We're just going to have to make more of an effort to use the local farmers market, unfortunately for us, it's only open on Thursdays, and then, only until 7 PM, which is early in a day and age where I barely leave the office before 6 PM.
Anyway, while doing research for "local ontario tomato" for something I'm writing for work, I was shocked to see the Google results. And disheartened that so few people are searching for local foods that the first optimized result is an official government document of a sort decreeing that there shall be a local board to deal with how to market Ontario tomato seedlings, but nothing at all as per where you can buy them, what kind of tomatoes people are growing, or even practical information about growing tomatoes in Ontario. Maybe I did the wrong search?
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If it's any consolation, a farmer's market is coming to Liberty Village and it will be on Sundays I think - the weekend at any rate.
Very disappointing indeed! Have you had a chance to read 100-Mile Diet? (http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679314820)? I haven't yet, but my naturopath absoultely loved it -- read it in one car ride (albeit a long car ride).
My only concern is that they were fortunate enough to live in a place that is seasonally warm and close to an ocean -- not so much here in Toronto :) Also, with my candida, I'd have to say that it would be mighty difficult to find rice anywhere within 100 miles of the big T.O.
I think that you should plant your own tomatoes. They're not too hard to take care of and it would make good blog fodder. You can buy Canadian heirloom varieties even. And I'll bet the Portuguese neighbour would do most of the caring for them.
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