I will credit that it's easier to eat local if you eat animal products.
This is really interesting to me. I'd estimate that probably 80-85% of what Andy and i eat comes from the farmers market -- including animal products (meat, eggs, cheese). Yet, cheese* aside, animal products were the last thing i found at the market. After we moved into our apartment, it took me about a month of steadily attending the market every single saturday before i found eggs (i've since realized that this is probably because, in the summer, eggs sell out really FAST), and it took me another month before i noticed that someone was selling pork (a little while later i found someone selling beef -- that took longer because they only came biweekly). These days there are so many meat merchants that our beef and pork sellers have both stopped selling at the market because there was too much competition, so meat has certainly gotten more prominent and easier to find. Still, the vast majority of what's available at the farmers market is non-meat.
Granted, not being a vegetarian i must admit that i'm not 100% certain what, if anything, a veg*n would need beyond such produce as is available at my local market. I haven't seen, for example, any soy products. On the other hand, i have seen, i think, as least 2 vendors selling dried beans. I've also started seeing Washington state (everything at the market must be grown in WA state) grains.
* Our market abounds with cheese merchants. There are 4 that have been around the market for as long as i've been going to it, and occasionally another one pops up temporarily.
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Date: 2007-09-17 09:51 pm (UTC)I will credit that it's easier to eat local if you eat animal products.
This is really interesting to me. I'd estimate that probably 80-85% of what Andy and i eat comes from the farmers market -- including animal products (meat, eggs, cheese). Yet, cheese* aside, animal products were the last thing i found at the market. After we moved into our apartment, it took me about a month of steadily attending the market every single saturday before i found eggs (i've since realized that this is probably because, in the summer, eggs sell out really FAST), and it took me another month before i noticed that someone was selling pork (a little while later i found someone selling beef -- that took longer because they only came biweekly). These days there are so many meat merchants that our beef and pork sellers have both stopped selling at the market because there was too much competition, so meat has certainly gotten more prominent and easier to find. Still, the vast majority of what's available at the farmers market is non-meat.
Granted, not being a vegetarian i must admit that i'm not 100% certain what, if anything, a veg*n would need beyond such produce as is available at my local market. I haven't seen, for example, any soy products. On the other hand, i have seen, i think, as least 2 vendors selling dried beans. I've also started seeing Washington state (everything at the market must be grown in WA state) grains.
* Our market abounds with cheese merchants. There are 4 that have been around the market for as long as i've been going to it, and occasionally another one pops up temporarily.