FRESH IDEAS

What a concept—bring farmers directly to the people who buy their products. Let them meet one another. Let urbanites learn about what to do with rutabagas and how they're grown, and let farmers hear about new produce shoppers are interested in buying. And let farmers receive a fair price for the food they produce. It's called buying local and eating seasonal.

Today, almost all of our food is imported while local farmers struggle to make ends meet. Foreign countries subsidize their farmers or pay unfair wages allowing imported food, when the same local product is available, to eventually destroy our local farmland because BC farmers cannot sell their produce and make enough money to cover the cost of producing food.

...Except at the Markets