Buying organic foods is becoming more and more popular. Even large grocery chains such as Safeway have been selling some organic foods for a while. For myself, I have slowly but surely been transitioning to organic and locally grown foods over the past few years. I'm making sure to include locally grown foods, because I think it is a higher priority to buy locally grown food than to buy organically grown food because in most cases locally grown foods help your local economy and use less energy overall than organically grown foods. It is even better if the food is local and organic. But I digress. Just this week I started buying organically grown bananas, and I was surprised to find a sticker on each banana that says:
"Visit our Farm at doleorganic.com FARM 003"
along with saying it is USDA certified organic blah blah blah.
So I went to the doleorganic.com website and found FARM 003. You can click here to go straight to it. They have a brief description, some pictures, and even have a kmz file that you can download and open in Google Earth to see where exactly they are farming and packaging the bananas. That is pretty cool. It would be nice if they had a little more information about the operation, but it is nice to see where the bananas are coming from. Unfortunately I can't really buy locally grown bananas, so I'll have to stick with this option for now.
Posted by troutm8 at February 28, 2008 04:38 PM