Buying locally grown produce

Mary's Garden has an great selection of local lettuce right now!  They are huge and delicious!

I've posted before where I buy my organic local grown produce.  Yesterday, a woman who was checking out the garlic said "I'm not buying anything from the US, I'm done"!  I had never met this woman before.  The only thing I've bought from the US lately is oranges as we don't grow them here.  You can get really nice ones from Peru but they were out of stock and we love oranges.

During the winter months, I always buy BC hothouse tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers to support our local farmers.  Some of the greenhouses are very close to where I live and I think it's great we can get local produce in the middle of winter.

When I was paying for the produce at Mary's Garden, Cec picked up a brochure "Farm Fresh Reference Guide".  It is a great resource of where and when to buy local produce, cheese, and meat.  They put a PDF file of the brochure on the BC Farm Fresh website.  If you want to know where and when to purchase farm fresh local products from Chilliwack to the lower mainland and every community in between it's a great resource.  There is a great map showing where the farmers markets are located.

B C Farm Fresh Guide