{"id":4525,"date":"2015-08-03T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2015-08-03T20:51:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T20:51:55","slug":"farm-focus-perfect-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-perfect-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: “Perfect” Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\"photo<\/a>\n\n \n

When I was all done packing the CSA boxes with tomatoes, I found myself with some extras.\u00a0 <\/span>My co-worker\u2019s daughter was visiting, and I asked her if she wanted to pick out a few tomatoes to take home.\u00a0 <\/span>She was delighted, and I watched as she carefully put some tomatoes in a bag.\u00a0 <\/span>I was intrigued by her choices.\u00a0 <\/span>She skipped the round, red, tomatoes and selected the fruits that were most colorful and odd-shaped.\u00a0 <\/span>I asked her, \u201cwhy did you chose that one?\u201d she responded gleefully, \u201cbecause it is so funny looking!\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It suddenly occurred to me that she was not yet jaded by our societal norms of perfect, classically colored, blemish free food.<\/p>\n

Even our customers that actively seek out local, organic produce, still want \u201cperfect\u201d fruit.\u00a0 <\/span>I was working at the farmers market last week and a customer asked me to pick her out a nectarine.\u00a0 <\/span>I obliged and chose her one with a visible sun burn, taking the shape of a scar down one side of the fruit.\u00a0 <\/span>I did this because while this nectarine was not as beautiful as the rest, the sunburned fruit is always the sweetest.\u00a0 <\/span>The customer crinkled her nose and said \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want that one.\u201d \u00a0 <\/span>I explained my theory of sun burns and sweetness, but regardless she chose a different nectarine, one that was more visually appealing.<\/p>\n

I am happy that local, organic food choices are becoming more common.\u00a0 <\/span>But I am saddened that the customer base still has such high cosmetic standards.\u00a0 <\/span>The demand for visually perfect food, coupled with agricultures growing reliance on mechanization, leaves unique and often more delicious fruit and vegetables in the dust.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  When I was all done packing the CSA boxes with tomatoes, I found myself with some extras.\u00a0 My co-worker\u2019s daughter was visiting, and I asked her if she wanted to pick out a few tomatoes to take home.\u00a0 She was delighted, and I watched as she carefully put some tomatoes in a bag.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/photo-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}