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Do you have organic box schemes there? There is one in most areas here: you pay a standard charge for a weekly (delivered) box, and get a box full of whatever vegetables and fruits are in season. They usually come from local farms, and thus don't cost a lot to the environment in 'food miles'.

There is a briefing page on them here:
soil association

by Boudicca (badgerval at hotmail dot com) on Sun Aug 28th, 2005 at 03:08:00 PM EST
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I've heard of celebrities here getting such things, but I've never heard of it in real life.  But there's a lot I don't know!

Where we live, we do get milk delivered from a local farm that doesn't use hormones or anything, and it's the same cost as from the store, but I was amazed to come across such a thing.  They certainly didn't have that where I grew up in Los Angeles!

Also what I've heard is good here, is we have local farmer's markets on the weekends.   That's on my to-do list.  I'd like to get fresh food and support the local growers.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Aug 28th, 2005 at 07:03:41 PM EST
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