Buy Local – Buy Fresh – Buy Tuesday

Buy Fresh AlabamaI bought a can of peaches at the grocery store the other day. They were from Greece and Packed in Southeast Asia. CNN has been doing a recent story about how hard it would be to get food that’s not from outside the US.  Well, the cure for this disease is to shop the Local Farmer’s Market downtown on Railroad Avenue on Tuesday. I suspect they won’t have produce from Greece, but that’s okay, right?

From the Archives — originally published on the Opelika Daily News on July 22, 2007. View the original page.

Author: Jerry Katz

Jerry Katz is the creator of Opelika Daily News. A former broadcaster, he has been writing about Opelika for more than twenty years — first as a blogger, now as the one-person newsroom behind this site. He curates the region's local news daily, writes the Katz Ramblings column and the weekly From the Archives look-back, and maintains an archive of more than 3,200 posts reaching back to 2002. He lives in Opelika. Reach him at jerry@opelikadailynews.com.

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