July 17th, 2009
I just registered with SPUD, and placed my first order with them. SPUD is a local grocery delivery service that sources locally grown and primarily organic foods. One of the neat features of their website is that each item has a note beside it telling you how far the food had to travel to get to your location. They say the average distance of grocery store items is 2500 kilometres from where it is grown to point of sale – when I placed my order, I selected almost exclusively local items and ended up with an average of 292 kilometres (which is skewed by my dried beans, which come from a million miles away). All my produce is BC grown. Also, you can sort your shopping experience in a few ways, including local only or by dietary need (I used “vegan” but you can choose other things like “no wheat” and so on).
So I will report back on whether the food is fresh and good quality. But I have high hopes! How awesome would it be to have a delivery system of great, locally produced grocieries? It’s not my own farm but it may be as close as I get for now.
If it’s good I will also try ordering by the caselot. I’d like to get a whole mess o’ tomatoes and do some canning. I go through dozens and dozens of cans of tomatoes when it’s not tomato season, which is most of the year. I need to look at prices, and I need to consider the space restrictions in my apartment, but canning might be a good option for me.
Your link is broken. Looks like you have to put http:// in front of it or it thinks it’s part of your site.
thanks for the notice, I fixed it. Oops!