Oranges from South Africa

I love eating oranges! When I started packing my daughter's lunches in September, I bought lovely oranges for her to eat at noon. And I bought grapefruits for our breakfast.

My daughter loved the oranges in her lunch. I carefully cut them, so that she could eat sections, and not have difficultly peeling. She came home raving about them. They were so, so juicy, she said.

Unfortunately, there was a problem. I looked at the cute little labels on the oranges and noticed that they were from South Africa! What! These fruits were shipped half way across the globe so that we could eat them! How many kilometers was that?

Any environmentalist will tell you that you need to eat locally grown produce. And at this time of year, that means apples.

At least until Florida's oranges are ripe. Florida is a distance (perhaps acceptable) but South Africa... uh uh.

Yesterday Paul Darcy and I picked up some beautiful organic apples and my they are tasty! They also didn't have to travel the globe to get to us!