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The sustainable harvest
Why garlic from China? We’re browsing over the bounteous produce in a local supermarket: carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, five kinds of squash, russet potatoes and pale-skinned ones, cauliflowers in purple, orange and green as well as white. 
 
Éric Darier, a sustainable agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace, has joined a Gazette reporter and photographer to shop […]

Draw a giant circle around Montreal with a radius of 100km. Then find all the organic farms that fit snugly within that border. Now support those farms.
Here’s a few to start:
44.1km - Ile Perot, Qc - Windmill Point Farm
Offering a gamut of fruits and veggies (oooh organic potatoes)
100km - Waterloo, Qc - […]

This time a local producer steps into the ring. The competitors being Liberté and Loblaws brand PC Organics Milk.
Lamothe est Freres milk, squeezing the cow’s teet since 1913. Raises the bar, on Price!
Charging 5.19$ (at Metro) for a 2L jug of 2%, Biolait really puts the squeeze on consumers trying to select […]

Take two organic milks (i.e. the cows don’t eat food sprayed with synthetic pesticides, hormones etc) both 2%, both 2L, both available in a Montreal Loblaws.  Which one costs 25% more than the other?  Yay friends with a baby in the oven and a keen eye for pure whitish milk.