Year-round produce? It’s what we’ve become accustomed to. At any time of the year, most people expect to be able to walk into their grocery store and find any number of fruits and vegetables, from fresh blueberries and strawberries to fresh heads of lettuce and fresh cucumbers.
But as anyone who has spent any time growing food can tell you: that’s not a realistic scenario for harvest. In fact, many of those crops have traveled great distances—sometimes across oceans—and been grown in circumstances that don’t resemble anything like a typical garden setup (think massive greenhouses). There is, however, another alternative for obtaining our produce like this: it’s to learn more about what we eat and to think more about where we’re getting it from.
To start that, it’s helpful to understand the growing season for most typical items that you might want to purchase. This graphic provides a good place to start, as well as information about thinking local about those purchasing decisions.
Inforgraphic attribution: https://zerocater.com.
Whether you are making dinner at home or heading out for a night on the town, consider eating seasonally for your own good and the environment’s.
What are your current in-season favourites?
FT&PD
Suz
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Eating in season veggies are great, save money and eat the fruits and produce at it’s best state. I think that you can compromise and stock up on them while in season and freeze some too to enjoy on the off months
Eating in season vegetables is what I’ve been trying to do much more of. I’ve even started my own very first garden. TY so much for these healthy tips
My current in-season faves are cherries and apricots. I can’t get enough
It’s cheaper to eat the produce that is in season.
Eating seasonal helps with the cost of the fruit and veggies but also helps your local farmers!!
I appreciate all ur tips. I have Lupus fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis so healthy eating when I can helps tremendously not to mention my hubby is a diabetic. You all make it look so simple but I’ve learned for me the trick is a journal
Eating healthy is so important and ever more so the older we get!
Eating seasonally is a good making sure you get all your healthy vitamins. Summertime is so much easier as you can grow your own.
The only season that matters for most Canadians is summer because that’s when we get the best produce whether we have a personal garden or buy from the farmers market or a grocery store
We love to eat fresh produce from our garden in Summer or the farmers market!
I agree and try to eat in season, food so much tastier
In season food tastes so much better and is a lot better for you. I love to get all kind of fresh produce like strawberries, blueberries,peaches, broccoli and cauliflower.
We love to eat what is in season, right now enjoying string beans and peas from our garden
Eating is so healthy and is much cheaper, especially if you can pick it out of your own garden, which we can. Love my fresh vegetables on my table every night. Hate to see it end.
Thanks very much for posting this helpful Seasonal Eats chart, I like to refer to it as a reminder when the seasons change.
Eating seasonally is great if you live in a region where you can grow in the winter.
so important to eat seasonally