Local Vegetables Hit Different

Seek them out in your community

Yes, you should be buying local food.

When you do so, you’re supporting small-scale farmers, contributing to the sustainability and biodiversity of the local ecosystem, reducing the “carbon footprint” by cutting down the resources wasted on transportation, so on and so forth, yadda yadda yadda.

These messages/arguments are not wrong, but all these shoulds and shouldn’ts have been repeated so many times that they sound like stupid boring sermons at a church, or some AI-generated-sounding textbook paragraphs. When I am having a hearty meal, I don’t want to be interrupted by thoughts about the responsibilities and moral values I need to uphold as “a member of the human race”. I just wanna have a good time, ok?

Now here’s my message:

Seek out local vegetables and food in your area, because they very likely taste better. Or at least they would taste like something new. To you.

Organic vegetables produced on a farm that you can see and step on, or by farmers you can directly talk to, have a much higher chance to be tastier. Two reasons (that even I can come up with):

1. The vegetables are fresher when you buy them, because they don’t have to endure lengthy processes of transportation and…