Buying local — beyond groceries
I’ve been so focused on buying local with my groceries that I hadn’t been thinking about other things we could buy locally until the other day when we were buying beer. We like to buy beer from smaller breweries and there are several good ones in our area: Flying Fish is in Cherry Hill, NJ; Riverhorse in Lambertville, NJ; Saranac in PA, Yeungling in PA. I wonder if Sam Adams in still really made in PA? I think even my current addiction, Pete’s, is brewed in MA — not too far away. I guess buying local beer would mean no more Guinness or Red Stripe, though, at least until our next trips to Ireland and Jamaica.
And what about clothes? I don’t buy a lot of stuff for myself, and Steve gets a lot from Banana Republic. (Yikes!) but for the kids I buy most stuff consignment. Not only am I reusing, but I guess that is buying local, as well.
I wonder what else we can buy locally…
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