Mon, Feb-10-20, 07:50
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Plan: Atkins-ish (hypoglycemia)
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Originally Posted by cotonpal
I can get swiss chard all year around. I shop at my local food coop, a kind of moderate sized health food type store that traces its roots back to the food coop movement of the late 60's and 70's. The selection of organic produce is always great and always includes chard.
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That's the type of health food store that's completely disappearing around here. There's still the Amish stores, but when it comes to fresh veggies, they tend toward selling only what's in season locally. This time of year that means mostly root veggies, maybe some kale, broccoli or cauli, if it was sufficiently protected during the hard freezes we've had.
So it'll be a couple of months before the amish stores have chard for sale again - if they carry it at all. I looked up food co-ops in the area, and there's only one that offers chard - and only then as an add-on to their regular CSA box plans, which are not even available yet this year, because it's winter.
Spring is coming though - I hope to grow some of my own. 
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