Your Food Chain
The graphic here provides the reason that responsible people source their food as close to their backyards as possible.
There are over 700 Certified Farmers’ Markets in California alone. It’s a great industry to support, and the people (both the vendors and the customers) tend to be very cool people.
As much as I like Trader Joe’s, I never buy anything there that I can get locally, as each TJ’s SKU comes from one source, which can be anywhere around the world.