Your Local Farmers Market Society: News1130 Local farmer's markets offer locally produced choices
News1130 Local farmer's markets offer locally produced choices
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - As the world braces for a "food crisis", many people here in the Lower Mainland are turning to other options other than the grocery store. Shoppers at the Trout Lake farmer's market are choosing organic and local over anything else.
Fresh produce, and loaves of baked bread line the tables at the summer's first farmer's market and so do the hundreds of consumers. In fact, many first time farmer's market shoppers admit it's an option they're turning to more than ever. And although it isn't always cheaper, buying locally grown products is a way for this man to know where they've come from, "We try to buy as close as we can, most locally grown food. And they're...producing tasty food, healthy stuff that people like."
In the past year alone, corn prices have climbed from around $2.25 US a bushel to 6 bucks. Wheat has jumped threefold because of rising fertilizer and fuel costs and a demand for bread and pasta. The emphasis on food has many here in the Lower Mainland looking for other options. Some have even started turning to their own gardens instead of grocery store shelves.
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - As the world braces for a "food crisis", many people here in the Lower Mainland are turning to other options other than the grocery store. Shoppers at the Trout Lake farmer's market are choosing organic and local over anything else.
Fresh produce, and loaves of baked bread line the tables at the summer's first farmer's market and so do the hundreds of consumers. In fact, many first time farmer's market shoppers admit it's an option they're turning to more than ever. And although it isn't always cheaper, buying locally grown products is a way for this man to know where they've come from, "We try to buy as close as we can, most locally grown food. And they're...producing tasty food, healthy stuff that people like."
In the past year alone, corn prices have climbed from around $2.25 US a bushel to 6 bucks. Wheat has jumped threefold because of rising fertilizer and fuel costs and a demand for bread and pasta. The emphasis on food has many here in the Lower Mainland looking for other options. Some have even started turning to their own gardens instead of grocery store shelves.