Sentences with phrase «bought at a local farm»

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Born on a Swedish farm in 1926, Kamprad began his entrepreneurial career by buying matches, pens, ties and stickers in bulk and selling them at a profit, using the local milk van to deliver orders each morning.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

Together J and I went to great local restaurants, bought produce from excellent local farms, went to bonfires, went to the beach, cooked and ate meals together, spent both Halloween and New Years partying at the Surf Pub, and made many connections with great people here on this tiny island.

I almost called this Stuffed Acorn Squash a «Farmer's Market Special» because I picked the apple fresh off a tree at a local farm and bought the squash, onion and chicken sausage I used at a local outdoor farmer's market.

We buy as much local as we can — all of the shrimp we serve is from Bayou La Batre, Ala., and the catfish we serve at Baumhower's is from Alabama - based farms.

Ideally when we say local we mean buying directly from the nearby farm, however this is obviously not always possible so make sure at the very least you are buying Australian grown and Australian made products.

For this simple sheet pan dinner, I've paired Foster Farms Simply Raised chicken thighs with fresh broccoli and sweet onions - you can either buy a large head of broccoli at the local farmer's market or pick up a package of florets when you grab your chicken.

I buy them at the local organic farm and usually get a variety.

As members of a thriving family - farming community here in Northern California, we have always enjoyed buying produce directly from local organic farms at farmers» markets.

If buying a bit of your produce locally at the Farmer's Market or local farm stand is something that feels good to you, go for it.

Sure, eggs would be nice and chickens would be fun, but eggs aren't THAT expensive to buy at the store or even from the local farm down the street.

I found a Melissa & Doug Reusable Sticker Pad at our local farm store, and now I don't think I'll ever buy any other stickers again.

This year, we decided that rather than buy our tree at a local lot, it was time to create a new tradition and make the trip out to the local cut it yourself Christmas tree farm.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, at the base of the sunny, rolling hills of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), campus, locals gather at a farm stand to buy fresh tomatoes and salad greens.

I bought several really large (20 + pound) of these cushaw winter squashes at a local no - spray farm for $ 6 each and later found them at another farm for only $ 5.

The weather is perfect, the leaves are changing and winter squash is in (inexpensive) abundance at local farms and farmers markets so I buy in bulk and save it to help our food budget all year.

Being committed to buying organic comes at a high price and exclusively sourcing from local, seasonal, and organic farms that pay their employees fair wages is costly.

I'm not one to ravage the local farm stand, buying every pumpkin and mum in sight, plastering them across my front entrance and leaving it at that.

The romanticised image of farming in NZ is one where rugged rugby players woo fresh - faced farm girls against an idyllic, «Godzone» rural backdrop (or perhaps they buy them a pint once a week at the local hotel pub).

Many people who like to eat healthy, organic food would certainly buy their groceries at local Amish markets or farms.

The Van der Merwe's run the only rooibos farm in the valley — Biedouw Valley Rooibos — which you can buy at your local Pick n Pay, or from reception at Enjo.

I'd venture to guess that many people who are regularly / religiously buy at farmer's markets (and who also participate in CSAs), do so for a combination of reasons: better product, supports their local farmers / economy, and supports / encourages farming in a more sustainable fashion that, just so happens, has some environmental benefit, even if it is not as great as not buying / eating beef from CAFOs.

WE went up the coast to an amazing nursery to buy the flowers and we bought the pumpkins at a local farm stand here in California.

I'm not one to ravage the local farm stand, buying every pumpkin and mum in sight, plastering them across my front entrance and leaving it at that.