Nourish Noshes

You may think it’s fantastic that we can shop at our supermarket for strawberries in November and peaches in February. And in a way, it is amazing. But buying and eating them hurts more people than they benefit. Let us explain. By buying foods that are local and in season: we decrease the amount of fossil fuels used in transportation from thousands of miles away, we reduce our reliance on unhealthy pesticides and chemicals used to grow produce out of season and preservatives that keep the vegetables from rotting on their long trips to us. We also save money - because doing all those things to ship them to us costs a lot. When eating seasonally and locally, we also increase the strength of our local community. That said, what is there to eat seasonally?  It’s cold out there.  In the dead of winter, nothing is really growing anymore, for the most part.  However, foods that are harvested in late fall store well and serve our bodies well all winter long. In the winter, the cold and wind dry out the land