For a long time, I have been trying to shop local, sustainable, and organic whenever I can. To me the local and sustainable are really two sides of the same coin. While large corporations have their place (I’ll never be able to break my Target addiction), in many ways they separate us too much from the fulfillment of our basic needs. It is amazing to hear how the farmer harvests my vegetables or how the rancher raised the beef that I am eating—that knowledge connects me to my food sources and makes it more REAL. The things I buy stop being stuff and return to being actual items like a steak, a bunch of carrots, or a sweater that was created (in one way or another) by an actual human.
Without getting to heavy into the politics, I want to tell you about a couple of things that I am doing to support local, sustainable, or just better products.
