The Meridian Farmers Market in Okemos is going to be open this Wednesday,
the day before Thanksgiving from 10-2. I'm not sure how many vendors will
be there, but I know they have done this in previous years.
Lucy Hartlove
Vicki Morrone writes:
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> With Thanksgiving coming up this is your chance to stock up on LOCAL and
> ORGANIC on Nov 18t- BUY LOCAL DAY!. There are a few farmers markets
> continuing to offer products, such as the Lansing Farmers Market on
> Cedar St, downtown Lansing, across from the Lugnuts stadium, on
> Saturdays. Of course there are local food coops.
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> What are your favorite spots to buy local in the "off season". I hope
> that you will take a moment to "Reply All" on this email and tell us
> where you get local food this time of year. It's the time we prepare the
> biggest meals that are shared with the largest number of friends and
> family, but the most difficult time to buy local. Those with hoop
> houses or are members of CSAs with hoop houses, YOU LUCKY DEVILS!!!
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> Happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your local friends and family
>
> Vicki
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> Buy Local Day!
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> The typical industrial supermarket food travels an average of 1300 miles
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> their products. For every dollar a consumer spends on such food, farmers
> receive ten cents or less! Just a few decades ago farmers earned up to
> seventy cents. But in today's industrialized food system, more and more
> of our food dollars go to the corporate middlemen for processing,
> marketing, packaging, storage and shipping, and the people who actually
> grow it receive increasingly less.
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