Eating Better than Organic

One of my favorite things that we did this weekend (besides having another golf lesson and discovering that I am really bad at chipping - we should have taken a picture at the end of our lesson because the entire green was littered with golf balls and the vast majority of them were nowhere near the hole!) ... anyway, I digress .... One of my fav things this weekend was that Brad and I took a trip to our local Farmer's market.

I've been starting to do some research on organic foods to figure out how much I want to incorporate organics in to our diets. In my research, I ran across this Time article which I thought was great, "Eating Better than Organic". I love that the author is struggling with the same questions that I am - is organic the best way to go? Or is it better to choose local items that haven't been transported halfway around the world? What does organic even mean anyway? I'm still figuring out the answers but the article did inspired me to check out the local Farmer's market ...

Not much good produce this time of the year but we did get some fair-trade coffee, home-made banana bread and then bought a bunch of meats from this guy that was dressed head to toe in camo and I have no doubt had some machine guns in the back of his pick-up truck. Anyway, despite the fact that I was a bit afraid of him we bought an array of buffalo meats and turkey which was raised on their farm in a humane, ecologically sustainable, 100% natural (no hormones, antibiotics, etc) kinda way (and Brad tells me were quite tasty).

I felt really good about our purchases so I'm thinking farmer's market will become a more regular part of my shopping routine. But I also know I'm not going to be insane about it ... I thoroughly agree with the concluding statement of the Time article "I'm not a purist about these choices - I ate a Filet-O-Fish at McDonald's on the way to [the local] farm. But in general, I have decided that you are where you eat."