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Good Bite, and Good Luck
On freezing local foods |
Umbra Fisk |
17 Oct 2005 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I am lucky enough to live across the street from a farmers' market, and I shop there all summer. But when summer's done, the market closes and I am left to buy produce from California. Would it be better for me to buy a small freezer and freeze farmers' market veggies for winter, or to forgo the freezer and buy from the grocery store? Which is worse: long-distance transportation or the juice used by a freezer? ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, farmers markets, food and agriculture, green living, local food (all these topics) |
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