All Local
6.January.2007
On Saturday evening after our excursion to the Ford Museum, we did some grocery shopping. Now, this is where the rubber hits the proverbial road when it comes to buying locally and sustainably.
Our first stop was Heffron Farms Market (http://www.heffronfarms.com/). The market, located a few miles up Plainfield supplies meat, dairy, eggs, as well as some other interesting supplies, primarily from a third generation family farm in Belding. Thus the meat and ice cream we purchased traveled 23.5 miles from farm to storefront, and 2.7 miles from there to our freezer! We decided to get meat at Heffron Farms because it supports local agriculture, and a way of life that is being destroyed by consumerism.
When we eat the stew of beef from Heffron Farms, we know that the cows who supplied it lived naturally, did not take hormones, were treated with dignity, and that the meat did not spend a lot of time in a refridgerated truck that emitted lots of carbon dioxide into our already polluted atmosphere.
Ironically, Heffron Farms Market is located in a strip-mall where it shares a wall with a Blockbuster Video. Yikes.
Our next stop was Kingma's Market, another local grocery source where we picked up produce, lunchmeat, and bulk raisins/sunflower seeds to make granola. We ran into some parents from Aberdeen Elementary whom Megan had worked with previously and were able to discuss together some of the issues they were facing in the local schools.
Later that evening we walked to Graydon's Crossing for a dinner to celebrate Epiphany, after which we did our traditional family gift exchange. I ran into a former co-worker/classmate there too.
On Saturday evening after our excursion to the Ford Museum, we did some grocery shopping. Now, this is where the rubber hits the proverbial road when it comes to buying locally and sustainably.
Our first stop was Heffron Farms Market (http://www.heffronfarms.com/). The market, located a few miles up Plainfield supplies meat, dairy, eggs, as well as some other interesting supplies, primarily from a third generation family farm in Belding. Thus the meat and ice cream we purchased traveled 23.5 miles from farm to storefront, and 2.7 miles from there to our freezer! We decided to get meat at Heffron Farms because it supports local agriculture, and a way of life that is being destroyed by consumerism.
When we eat the stew of beef from Heffron Farms, we know that the cows who supplied it lived naturally, did not take hormones, were treated with dignity, and that the meat did not spend a lot of time in a refridgerated truck that emitted lots of carbon dioxide into our already polluted atmosphere.
Ironically, Heffron Farms Market is located in a strip-mall where it shares a wall with a Blockbuster Video. Yikes.
Our next stop was Kingma's Market, another local grocery source where we picked up produce, lunchmeat, and bulk raisins/sunflower seeds to make granola. We ran into some parents from Aberdeen Elementary whom Megan had worked with previously and were able to discuss together some of the issues they were facing in the local schools.
Later that evening we walked to Graydon's Crossing for a dinner to celebrate Epiphany, after which we did our traditional family gift exchange. I ran into a former co-worker/classmate there too.
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