winter tomatoes from maine

over the winter, whole foods bowery had the option of organic tomatoes from israel, or conventional ones from maine.

i opted for maine, israeli ones just seemed extremely far.

i forgot you can't always associate local-ish, with sustainable small farm, that is pretty natural, but doesn't pay for organic certification.

i just found out this is where they come from:



http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/30/dining/20100331-tomato-slideshow_index.html

a mega greenhouse in maine,
seems pretty cool, and an interesting slide show of 10 photographs,
but hydroponically grown? ew, too much science, not so natural.
who knows what kind of other weird science the usda allows for non organic.
and read frame 8 in the slide show, 32 minutes of electricity to light it = an avg american household's annual electricity use.