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The affluent of Austin, TX have afforded Whole Foods to 
build an 80,000 sf store with three underground stories of 
parking garage. They are building these all over the world 
now, and loft developers are vying to have them on their 
ground floors. Twenty years ago I remember when they were 
a hole-in-the-wall on 10th and Lamar where my neighbors 
bantered in their dreadlocks over the store's intercom 
between art classes at UT. You can get your local carrots 
there, prewashed, trimmed and packaged for $6, enough for 
just a snack.

On the flip side, I was recently in Louisiana at a small 
town Piggly Wiggly and they had a large poster in the 
window advertising locally grown vegetables. We stopped to 
talk to the produce manager and he was able to point out 
the creole tomatoes and sweet potatoes.

I'm happy to see it happening regardless of who gets the 
message out, whether it starts as a trend or out of 
necessity. My husband and I rarely miss an opportunity to 
get the message out where ever we go.

--Sage

Way Out in Texas

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 14:06:13 EDT
 Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > So my thought is that locavorism will most likely only 
> > become widely  
> > accepted and practiced if and when it is promoted by the 
> > affluent.  
>
>
> There's much too that.  Or perhaps if it were promoted 
> by Agelina Jolie or 
> Johnny Depp (who is also from Kentucky).  But I'm 
> guessing that the most 
> successful promoter of local foods is going to be grim 
> necessity.  When that bowl of 
> summer salad gets to be $12 due to the price of fuel and 
> fertilizer and the 
> declining dollar, that space between the carport and the 
> curb will begin to look 
> mighty like a garden spot.
>
> Another 'eat local' book very much along the lines of 
> Kingsolver's is Gary 
> Nabhan's  "Coming Home to Eat."  He's not a novelist so 
> his book is not nearly 
> so widely known.  He is the founder of Native Seed 
> Exchange.
>
> James   </HTML>
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