Yes, i really saw that concern about WHERE the produce is coming from last summer at my markets.
With the late winter 'tomato' scare that the USDA couldn't get a handle on for so long, lots of the commercial growers in Florida said that really killed their season and they lost money big time.
But the farmers markets seemed to do well with a lot of those same things BECAUSE customers can 'make a connection' with the grower and know who and what their produce is all about.
BTW, when that tomato scare first came out, I told Hubby that they would eventually find that the contaminated stuff came from Mexico or elsewhere out of the country where often the water used for irrigation is little more than 'open sewer' water. As usual the govt people over think things and don't use common sense to figure out the obvious. Tho it took more than 3 months, I was proved right about the source of the problem.
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