I’m sitting here reading the front page of the on-line Chicago Tribune and notice a stupid article on how the eat locally food movement is hurting the big farms (read conglomerates)!  Yeah, stupid, like I said.  Slightly over is a link to a story on a German conglomerate that falsified origination information on honey they export here – it’s actually from China.  Does anyone else see the irony here? If you purchase honey from a local bee keeper, it’s not likely the bees are vacationing elsewhere; same with produce from a farmer’s market (although I do like my traveling bananas).  I don’t see what the big deal is with buying stuff in season – can anyone honestly claim to like January tomatoes?

Unless and until I win the lottery (send winning numbers here before the drawing) and can set up a nice greenhouse, I’ll stick with peaches in the summer.