I'd like to believe that living on Prince Edward Island known as "THE MILLION ACRE FARM" that we know the food we eat or at least know where it comes from, but do we?
In answer to that, read labels. A great deal of the food we eat is imported, why? We are smart enough and have the ability to grown food and be a self sustaining island. But are we?
Not to bring the Atlantic Superstore to the topic of this conversation, but do you know a great deal of grower labels are from China? Take for instance snow peas! They are so easy to grow if you forget to trellis them they will faithfully produce with a plant toppled over even a plant that has wind damage (bent in half) will continue to yield. But the superstore Carries 2 varieties of snow peas, the ones grown in CHINA and the other packaged and grown in CHINA.
Shrimp has the label so well hidden but when you search it out with an employee, the pre-packaged, packed, then re-packed label tells you the shrimp sale featured to attract sales- is shrimp from CHINA. PEI has access to Northern Shrimp resources. I'm telling you this because the shrimp tanks in China, are designed directly under chicken wire cages. The feces from chickens are feeding the shrimp you are investing. Yuck.
Buy local means the money spent on food (the subject today) well most of it will go to the farmers feed bill, his deseal bill, the straw for bedding animals and tools needed to complete the job of field to fork. After all the meat we live to eat has to be fed, beded, watered, butchered, packaged and labeled. All costly these days.
We as growers produce food from what we raise. The shop offers (too sellers)
Chicken Pot Pie 🥧
Beef Pies
Heat'n Eat Meals
Winsloe Farm Market
The original makers of
Heat'n eat meals
545 malpeque rd, pei
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