Why local produce tastes and heals better Have you ever walked into the grocery store in the middle of winter and picked out a beautiful, red tomato? It looks perfectly delicious, but when you get home and slice into it, you discover it’s bland and mealy. If you’ve been fortunate enough to taste a tomato fresh off the vine in June, July or August, you know that no grocery store variety can compare. It’s succulently sweet, juicy, and good enough to eat by itself, or perhaps sprinkled with a dash of salt. Why is it that two tomatoes can look the same on the outside, and yet provide such … [Read more...]