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Look into buying directly from the farmer. In my area there is a "Community Supported Agriculture" option where you pay (directly to the farmer) $X per week for a box of produce, which is delivered to a centralized drop off spot (usually within a mile or two of your home) every week.

The downside is that you don't get to pick out the produce that arrives in the box - it's whatever is ripe and ready to go - but the quality is great and the prices are reasonable.

We pay $25 for a "small" box of produce, which we have delivered every other week. This last box contained: four cucumbers, four heirloom tomatoes, six vine tomatoes, two boxes of grape tomatoes, an avocado, four squash, a bunch of carrots, a brown paper bag full of apples (6, maybe 8), a bushel of Swiss chard, and some other stuff I'm forgetting about.

You might pay less at a discount grocery store like Walmart, but this farmer is the one that supplies the produce for Whole Foods, and if you bought the same items there you'd be paying twice as much easily.

He's the guy from the forums!

True story - I was an intern at Microsoft the summer that movie came out. Each summer the interns would get to have a BBQ at Bill's house and Bill would come out for a half hour or so and talk to us, answer questions, etc. I asked him this exact same question that summer evening and he gave the exact same answer then as he did here.

THE MAN IS CONSISTENT, PEOPLE.

For perhaps one of the most nauseating commercials in this vein, see Suzanne researched this.

Is "serious hobbies" a euphemism for something? Like maybe, "cocaine habit?"