There are also a number of community supported agriculture initiatives that lets you buy produce directly from the growers, rather than buy supposedly "better" quality stuff with longer shelf life from the super market, that glows with the sheen of wax.
An example: http://www.twosmallfarms.com/ I also tend to buy produce from local Indian stores, I find them to be cheaper and fresher (stuff that comes in gets sold within a day or two and so doesn't stay on the shelf). I was back home in my parent's house in the suburbs of Chennai for 6 weeks in the beginning of the year and found produce from reliance etc to be really really lacking in quality. The local vegetable stand that sold stuff fresh from the koyambedu market and the local growers came out on top on all counts. Vardhini ----- Original Message ---- From: Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:22:06 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Chaos makes better business sense On 8/10/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are there any Mom-and-Pop stores > left in the "developed" world? Thankfully, there are a few. Out here in the Bay Area where I live I buy some of my produce, wine, cheese, dairy from a small little store called Milk Pail Market (http://www.milkpail.com/). There is also the farmers market movement in most American cities these days which puts the customer in touch directly with the growers. Thaths -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer: (pause) A dinosaur. -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
