Your Food’s Hidden Journey
Did you know about 75% or more of the nation's fresh veggies come from just TWO valleys in California? That means our produce is traveling 1500- 2000 miles to get to our grocery store.
HIDDEN FACTS ABOUT YOUR FOOD'S JOURNEY
On the global market, food can travel 10,000 miles or more via trucks, trains, and boats before it hits your grocery store shelf
Produce is typically picked PRIOR to ripeness and then thrown on trucks and in refrigeration with ethylene and nitrogen gases to finish and/or preserve their harvest
Some foods, like apples, are waxed to maintain freshness and for looks, but are then able to sit up to a year in warehouses.
Meat labeled "Product of the USA" could actually have been raised outside of the country where regulations are bleak for animals, but because it was inspected domestically by the FDA, it is suddenly a product of the USA
““The grocery store is out. Shopping direct from Beyond Organic and Regenerative Farmers is in.” ”
Our standard food model demonstrates little regard for the long term health of farm ecosystems, local communities, farm owners, and the wellbeing of human labor and proper animal management. It is short sighted. The simple act of knowing your farmer and supporting a local supply chain gives each of us the opportunity to be an environmental and global activist. When we shop for food we are using our wallets as the power to flip the environmental crisis and the human and animal farming crisis on its head.
WHAT YOU CAN DO- I'VE MADE IT EASY!
Living in Seattle? Join my Community Supported Agriculture partnership with SnoValley Gardens this summer and get a fresh box of local, beyond organic vegetables every week. Sign up here.
Want to buy animal products direct from animal-loving farmers? I've done the research for you. Check out my vetted list here.
Want to trade up the dry goods in your kitchen? Buy my Regenerative Mama Better Box.
Want a customized list and tips for how to trade up the top 20 things YOU buy at the grocery store? Try our Trade Up in the Kitchen Service. You send us what you buy, and we'll do the research to give you a list of equivalent swaps!