Food

I want to be healthy.

I enjoy vegetables.

With all the confusion out there with regards to being "green" (not being a vegetable, but good to the environment and carbon consumption due to the distance particular vegetables take to get to your front door), and "organic" vs nonorganic sometimes I get a little confused about where and when to get my produce. 

I subscribe to a service that delivers some veggies to my front door, but so far I'm not particularly happy with them.  They keep sending me asparagus (I used to like asparagus, but getting it every week has dampered my enthusiasm for it), and _green_ bananas from Mexico.  For one thing, I don't want anything that is over 200 miles to my house, for the second I'm not entirely sure about produce from Mexico as I have read about some dodgy pesticide usage in other countries.  I don't think I should encourage the use of these pesticides because it could very well be affecting the areas that the pesticides are used in. 

I'm starting to wander off the topic so back to the summary:

1) Prefer local
2) Prefer organic
3) Want variety

Wholefoods is pretty dang good.  It's a bit of a further drive.  They have a lot of variety.  They are expensive.

Safeway's produce looks good, but I don't know the quality or where it comes from if it's not labelled organic. 

Nob Hill has the same general outlook of a good Safeway (I have seen variety at Safeway's).

I haven't been to other chains lately, so I can't really comment on them.

I do enjoy going to the local farmer's market on Saturdays, but the choices seem very sparse.  It seems like you can get a few varieties of lettuce, asparagus, artichokes, onions, potatos, tomatos, carrots... Is it really that there aren't that many vegetables?  Or is the farmer's market so geared towards what they definitely will sell so dictated by consumer demand? 

Where do you get your veggies?

What kind of veggies do you get?