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In Training posted:I just purchased strawberries today that were 3x as much as I paid like 3 weeks ago. But maybe the seasons shifted and I missed epic strawberry season. OR I was buying year old defrosted crap they were trying to move last month. berries are always super expensive, the ones i have bought recently have gone bad faster than usual too
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In Training posted:I just purchased strawberries today that were 3x as much as I paid like 3 weeks ago. But maybe the seasons shifted and I missed epic strawberry season. OR I was buying year old defrosted crap they were trying to move last month. peak strawberry season in the US is pretty much right now, or the next couple months if you live somewhere cold
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May 14, 2024 00:20
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if u have the capability/climate its worth it to grow yr own.
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May 14, 2024 00:21
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gardening is shoplifting from g*d herself
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May 14, 2024 00:22
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In Training posted:I just purchased strawberries today that were 3x as much as I paid like 3 weeks ago. But maybe the seasons shifted and I missed epic strawberry season. OR I was buying year old defrosted crap they were trying to move last month. berry season was pretty hosed this year iirc, but they should be about in season now. dunno what you were buying last month, could be defrosted or those early-grow varieties
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May 14, 2024 01:14
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my dad was bragging about his massive case of strawberries he got for 2.99 at the only-produce store in his town this weekend so i think now is the time
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May 14, 2024 01:34
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AnimeIsTrash posted:berries are always super expensive, the ones i have bought recently have gone bad faster than usual too feel like I have bought good garlic in like 5 years around here. Not sure what's up with that
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May 14, 2024 01:36
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In Training posted:feel like I have bought good garlic in like 5 years around here. Not sure what's up with that weirdly enough, the garlic i bought at trader joes recently has lasted awhile, it's like the only place where my garlic hasn't been utter dogshit which is funny because their produce is usually mediocre at absolute best.
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May 14, 2024 02:07
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In Training posted:feel like I have bought good garlic in like 5 years around here. Not sure what's up with that ive noticed the same, the only ones that come out fine are the small organic ones that only result in a handful of cloves. the cilantro is also poo poo everywhere i found that the asian grocery stores usually have better produce but recently like half of what i have bought is bad or has gone bad really fast
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May 14, 2024 02:10
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AnimeIsTrash posted:i found that the asian grocery stores usually have better produce but recently like half of what i have bought is bad or has gone bad really fast i think they're all just sitting in warehouses and transit for longer than before, even if it's relatively close-by, for awhile.
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May 14, 2024 02:13
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I bought some cilantro on a Friday night, and by the time I pulled them out of the fridge on Sunday, I pulled out a bag of wet wilted green crap.
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May 14, 2024 02:15
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Xaris posted:yep. i stopped trying stock up on veggies and just buy them if I plan to cook with them the same or next day. unfortunately this means if I get lazy and skip grocery shopping, I resort to just eating dried pasta or couscous or frozen something more often than I'd like
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May 14, 2024 02:18
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really queer Christmas posted:I bought some cilantro on a Friday night, and by the time I pulled them out of the fridge on Sunday, I pulled out a bag of wet wilted green crap. i think I might be lucky since there's probably cilantro and parsley farms nearby in the central valley, but I haven't had any notable issue with parsley or cilantro (only once in awhile does it instantly mushify into green baby food). not like I have with garlic, kale, and some other stuff anyways. potatos have been extremely bad here. i recently bought a bag and like all of them were green or sprouted
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May 14, 2024 02:18
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it could also be shopper-inflicted. if we all notice stuff goes bad faster and start buying smaller portions, store turnaround isn't as quick and stuff starts going bad faster
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May 14, 2024 02:48
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Xaris posted:yeah garlic season has sucked poo poo for years now. I generally buy from local produce markets or sometimes Costco AND I live near the "garlic capitol" (gilroy) so it's not like it has to travel to NYC like it does for you. no idea whats up with why it's been so weirdly bad. I don't know how commercially farmed garlic works, but garlic benefits from exposure to freezing temperatures and some hardneck varieties require periods of freezing to form proper bulbs. We've had huge problems with our garden garlic because it hasn't been cold enough for long enough for about three winters now. We may actually start doing the trick of sticking garlic bulbs in the freezer for a month before planting.
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i think most garlic is imported from china, or thats at least what a angry old woman was screaming at me once while i was picking some up.
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May 14, 2024 15:06
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stumblebum posted:could also include a combination of underpaid workers or needing-replacement refrigeration equipment letting produce bounce out of ideal temperature range more i also think the trucking industry was hit pretty hard when covid started, and that was already a pretty fragile industry (older folks aging out)
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May 14, 2024 15:15
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Lotta people going gaga for garlic in my local area. Lotta farmers getting in on it, being asked to do contract grows, etc. It's a very maintenance free crop round these parts
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May 14, 2024 15:33
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garlic is really easy to grow but is crazy expensive at the farmers market for some reason. just buy some seed garlic and plant it yourself in the fall, then keep replanting from your harvest. your harvest will last most of the year if you keep it dry.
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May 14, 2024 15:49
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you can also leave a bulb out awhile, split off the cloves that sprout and plant 'em. they grow fast
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May 14, 2024 15:52
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can't wait for those scapes
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AnimeIsTrash posted:its 100% this Trucking has always sucked and then, like 10 years ago, companies like Tesla started saying they were going to replace drivers.
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cool $3 dollar a can tuna in the olive oil is apparently conspicuously watered down. same label and price and everything. mr. president hurry up and call on somebody to do something turkey is a little dry
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Vox Nihili posted:when to the farmers market the other day and all the greens there were insanely cheap compared to the bullshit prices at any of the bullshit KROGERS grocers Lucky you, our farmers market is just resellers so the produce sucks and the prices are really high
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Grapplejack posted:Lucky you, our farmers market is just resellers so the produce sucks and the prices are really high "farmers" markets that are just soap sellers and food trucks and driscoll's strawberries and some guy playing the guitar piss me off
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May 20, 2024 15:36
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Grapplejack posted:Lucky you, our farmers market is just resellers so the produce sucks and the prices are really high what state r u in? where i am the official farmers markets are all registered with a local org and then the growers are inspected occasionally for honesty
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Crusty Nutsack posted:"farmers" markets that are just soap sellers and food trucks and driscoll's strawberries and some guy playing the guitar piss me off Oh poo poo a Driscoll hater
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its good to hate Driscoll
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Crusty Nutsack posted:"farmers" markets that are just soap sellers and food trucks and driscoll's strawberries and some guy playing the guitar piss me off many california farmers markets are pretty decent most o f the year, because of the central valley, but i like posting this tampa bay times story about what a crock of poo poo many farmers markets are. https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/farmers-markets/
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post hole digger posted:many california farmers markets are pretty decent most o f the year, because of the central valley, but i like posting this tampa bay times story about what a crock of poo poo many farmers markets are. this rules so far ty
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post hole digger posted:many california farmers markets are pretty decent most o f the year, because of the central valley, but i like posting this tampa bay times story about what a crock of poo poo many farmers markets are.
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post hole digger posted:many california farmers markets are pretty decent most o f the year, because of the central valley, but i like posting this tampa bay times story about what a crock of poo poo many farmers markets are. there was also this great cbc video where the reporter lady actually captures them ripping off the labels and stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwB63YslbA
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I blame the rich people who decided to make farmers markets and "farm-to-table" trendy for the abundance of really lovely markets. a suburban market will almost always be lovely. you have to go into the city to find the good ones that actually have farmers selling. the ones that have been around for 50+ years are usually good too, as long as the local tourism bureau hasn't gotten their claws in itpost hole digger posted:many california farmers markets are pretty decent most o f the year, because of the central valley, but i like posting this tampa bay times story about what a crock of poo poo many farmers markets are. i say swears online posted:this rules so far ty
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post hole digger posted:many california farmers markets are pretty decent most o f the year, because of the central valley, but i like posting this tampa bay times story about what a crock of poo poo many farmers markets are. but i suppose at least it's not fraudulent like florida. FL is probably the biggest scam-scheme-and-hustle culture state so it's not surprisingly that they're virtually all fraudulent.
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just realized i'm like 15 blocks from a farmer's market. looks like i'm buying some honey on saturday
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the farmers hsould be crushed
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i say swears online posted:just realized i'm like 15 blocks from a farmer's market. looks like i'm buying some honey on saturday a guy near me started selling honey they been collecting from rooftop hives and it's drat good stuff...
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In Training posted:a guy near me started selling honey they been collecting from rooftop hives and it's drat good stuff... Hope u don't live near too many rhododendrons
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farmer's markets...good??
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titty_baby_ posted:Hope u don't live near too many rhododendrons Lol thanks for this...cool that there's a market for Mad Honey
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