I could feel it in the air as I entered Market. Last Tuesday, the day we've been anxiously awaiting arrived ... ASPARAGUS!
I was late and beggars can't be choosers. Ten spears remained, exactly what I needed for a Create Your Own Essen experience to celebrate a 50th birthday. Even if sold out, just knowing there'd be more on Friday would bring sufficient satisfaction to get me through the week.
And what did Friday bring? The story only gets better. To complement the asparagus, I snagged the season's first rhubarb, more of the yummy spinach, North Carolina strawberries, loads of celery, horseradish, potatoes and eggs.
So, now you're thinking, what would one do with all of this stuff? Hmmm, reserve a seat today to find out!
Monday, April 21, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Buy Local
If ever there was a time to consider purchasing locally grown and sourced products, this is it. Prices on most goods and services have skyrocketed, driven in large part by soaring fuel prices and uncertainty about where the country's headed. As an example, the price of wheat has soared 100% in the past six months!
Significantly more money recirculates in Lancaster when we buy from locally owned, rather than nationally owned, businesses. More money stays in the community because locally owned businesses purchase from other local businesses, service providers, and farms. Purchasing locally helps grow other Lancaster businesses as well as Lancaster's tax base.
Food is a great place to start, especially here in Lancaster where it's fairly easy to buy locally sourced items. With our county's agricultural bounty, we have many opportunities to buy locally grown and produced grains, dairy, meats, fruits and vegetables. By doing so, we'll be helping preserve the environment, we'll increase the nutritional value of what we eat (food loses "the good stuff" the longer it's out of the ground) and we'll be strengthening Lancaster by investing our food dollar close to home. Only twenty cents of every dollar, when buying at a large supermarket, go to the grower. Eighty cents go to various middlemen. Cut them out of the picture, buy your food directly from your local farmer or farmer's market and keep 100% of your hard earned money in Lancaster.
Sounds like an easy way to make a big difference!
Significantly more money recirculates in Lancaster when we buy from locally owned, rather than nationally owned, businesses. More money stays in the community because locally owned businesses purchase from other local businesses, service providers, and farms. Purchasing locally helps grow other Lancaster businesses as well as Lancaster's tax base.
Food is a great place to start, especially here in Lancaster where it's fairly easy to buy locally sourced items. With our county's agricultural bounty, we have many opportunities to buy locally grown and produced grains, dairy, meats, fruits and vegetables. By doing so, we'll be helping preserve the environment, we'll increase the nutritional value of what we eat (food loses "the good stuff" the longer it's out of the ground) and we'll be strengthening Lancaster by investing our food dollar close to home. Only twenty cents of every dollar, when buying at a large supermarket, go to the grower. Eighty cents go to various middlemen. Cut them out of the picture, buy your food directly from your local farmer or farmer's market and keep 100% of your hard earned money in Lancaster.
Sounds like an easy way to make a big difference!
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