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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Oh tell me about it!  We've got tons of folks around here with hoop houses 
that grow all year and you can get tons of lovely locally grown organic 
veggies all year.  Although we are semi-transplants (relatives have lived up 
here since the 1840s), I'm from the next county and was real familiar with 
all the local everything.

People move in and wring their hands and piss and moan about how far we are 
from "everything."  Well, we do call it "You Can't Get Here From There" <g> 
but why the heck did they move here if they wanted to be close to 
"everything"?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Kingslover's Virginia location is Abingdon, twenty miles from here.  Her
> husband is a prof at Emory, another twenty miles north of there.
>
> The book is very good, but like so many imported people, Kingsolver was 
> too
> impressed witht he local grant supported "sustainable" (not!) outfit run 
> by
> professional grant-mongers.
>
> Recall that she said they had to rely on strawberry jam during the winter
> because there was no local fruit available.  Pshaw!  If she had just 
> stopped at
> the Po' Boy produce stand on Main Street no less, she'd have found bushels 
> of
> locally grown apples al winter long.  And cheap too, 39 cents a pound.
>
> At best a non-local is only going to know  just so much about eating 
> local.