Who's your favourite organic grocer?

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Did you know the reason sheep herders were so sparse in America is because it was falsely believed that the sheep damaged the land for the cattle. When in reality the sheep will eat what the cattle leave behind, but if not moved will destroy the grazing land. Random fact four hundred fifty six.

I didn't know that!

Dammit, I wish our farmers market was like that. THIS FARMERS MARKET SELLS NOTHING WHICH REQUIRES REFRIGERATION after more than four or five hours. So, therefore, finding ANY kind of meat (other than, sometimes, some sausages) at my local farmers market, is something I have NEVER seen. I would kill to be able to buy pickerel OR Arctic char - both are exquisite.

I have to travel HUNDREDS of miles, EVER, to get fresh pickerel [walleye], lake perch, grouper, bluegill - some of my favorite fish. I can't even get OCEAN PERCH here, for Chrissakes. I've never seen Arctic Char in the United States AT ALL, and I've never seen ono (my new fave OCEAN fish, by far, which I "discovered" in Hawai'i in April) on the U. S. mainland. So everything that I can get here are secondary favorites, other than the occasional wild-caught salmon - or, rarer, trout - which isn't entirely fresh.

There's no butcher shop here, either.

There are a few in the capital area. The main one I linked to is indoors and year-round on saturdays and has the facilities for meat. There is also a street market downtown, one in the southwest, and a couple in the bedroom communities outside the city proper. But they all seem to carry a good selection.