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trombonishOr, why I love living in a foodshed.
This afternoon, I drove about 40 minutes west to just past Caldwell, where the Boise population center meets farm country, with little towns population 537. I stopped at a large farm store I love, called Blue Barn Produce, for late-season foods, since this would be my last trip out for the year. Then I drove down the road a bit to an orchard, the farmer of which sells u-pick REALLY cheap.
I drove home with $115 of produce in my car.
What does $115 of produce buy you?
73 lbs of assorted pumpkins
plus 2 sweet pumpkins (about 2 lbs each)
3.5 lbs of hot peppers (we don't NEED more, but every time I'm there I get suckered in by hot peppers at $0.80/lb!)
50 lbs of pinto beans
150 lbs of pears
40 lbs of potatoes
THIS is the best part of living in Boise, in my opinion. We are City People living in a City going to City People Jobs, but can get farm food at farm prices for the cost of a 40 minute drive. In Denver it takes 40 minutes just to get to work, forget getting to where the food comes from.
I am ready for winter, bring it on!
I will do a pantry inventory for the year once I get the pears processed, plus I've still got about 70 lbs of apples from last week's apple picking. There might be one more apple picking this year too, if Tyler halves his prices again this year for the clean-off-the-trees end of season.
This afternoon, I drove about 40 minutes west to just past Caldwell, where the Boise population center meets farm country, with little towns population 537. I stopped at a large farm store I love, called Blue Barn Produce, for late-season foods, since this would be my last trip out for the year. Then I drove down the road a bit to an orchard, the farmer of which sells u-pick REALLY cheap.
I drove home with $115 of produce in my car.
What does $115 of produce buy you?
73 lbs of assorted pumpkins
plus 2 sweet pumpkins (about 2 lbs each)
3.5 lbs of hot peppers (we don't NEED more, but every time I'm there I get suckered in by hot peppers at $0.80/lb!)
50 lbs of pinto beans
150 lbs of pears
40 lbs of potatoes
THIS is the best part of living in Boise, in my opinion. We are City People living in a City going to City People Jobs, but can get farm food at farm prices for the cost of a 40 minute drive. In Denver it takes 40 minutes just to get to work, forget getting to where the food comes from.
I am ready for winter, bring it on!
I will do a pantry inventory for the year once I get the pears processed, plus I've still got about 70 lbs of apples from last week's apple picking. There might be one more apple picking this year too, if Tyler halves his prices again this year for the clean-off-the-trees end of season.
