Food shopping can give you indigestion. Grocery shopping is a mundane task that is underestimated for its complexity. Culture, diet, budget, seasonality, convenience, emotion, habit, instinct, environmental concerns and more more come into play. Whoever runs the procurement department in your household has a big job when it comes to figuring out what to eat.
While we can all aspire to self-sufficiency and aim to grow as much as we can in our own garden, knowing where and how to shop can give you access to the best of the season year-round. According to Farmers’ Markets Ontario (), sales at farmers’ markets have been estimated to increase 10 to 12 percent for the last decade, and it’s easy to see
