>>213887532It’s not fresh as in picked two minutes ago, but it is often less than a day since it’s been picked.
>Be upstate NY farmer>hm should I sell my food to locals in my town of 15,000 where almost everyone is poor so I have to charge low prices>or the medium sized city of 200,000 where I can charge more>or should I sell it in an 8,000,000 person city where everybody from the poor to the rich puts up with high prices on everything else so I can charge whatever I want?This is an oversimplification, but major cities often get first pick at food outside of the farmers themselves. I grew up in prime farmland in the Midwest and most of the food winds up in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, etc., not where it is actually grown.
