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Missing fresh produce? You can buy straight from the farmers off their trucks. Santa Fe has farmers markets every Saturday morning. The natural grocers, sprouts, Trader Joe’s, and Whole Foods also have fresh produce. Norther NM just had a bumper year of it’s “wild” fruit trees. Even here where I live. Maybe ask around?

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In California it's pretty easy to find like, perfectly pristine greens -- like, zero wilt or bruising or yellowing whatsoever. I'm at WFM and Sprouts nearly every weekend and have yet to find for example cilantro or kale or spring greens that don't have some wilt or yellowing going on. Which makes sense -- the climate out here isn't really amenable to picture perfect greens like California is.

But also, I'm probably more critical because I ran buying teams at grocery (brick & mortar and ecommerce) stores for 10 years so I'm always instinctively looking for minor blemishes

And yeah, really and truly I'm not being completely fair -- I haven't visited the farmers markets yet, and I've heard that about the trucks. Would love to check them out, hopefully I'll find some time this weekend.

The fruit has been pretty great though. I've been really happy with the stone fruit. One weird thing I've noticed is that the California avocados out here are consistently better than they were in California -- like, perfect ripeness, no browning, never disappointed when I get home, which would happen every other time in CA. Maybe there's more QA going on between CA and here, and time to ripen on the trucks

I’m able to find these in stores from time to time.

http://www.caminodepaz.net/?page_id=88

Uh isn't blemishes actually a sign that the fruit is tastier?

For fruit, sometimes, but not usually for greens :)

> One weird thing I've noticed is that the California avocados out here are consistently better than they were in California

Were avocados cheaper in CA? It might be the Alchian-Allen Effect: https://medium.com/@byrnehobart/alchian-allen-and-agglomerat...

the farmer’s market is one of the reasons I want to com le back.

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