Mushrooms and Herbs and Herbs and Mushrooms

To start off this food aware week, let me talk about the reason why the organic week was pushed back to May 22nd. It all started in Whole Foods. I had gone there, knowing it was an organic food place, to find what food was available that was in season and was organic. Well from a glance around the vegetable aisles, a lot was organic, but local? Well that was a problem. There was oranges from California, bananas from Florida, and even these love beets from England! Anyway, it didn't look too good. I went and asked the manager what they had that was local and organic. She called up a assistant, and he was very overjoyed that I was doing this movement. He first took me to the vegetables.
" So what's local and organic here"? I asked.
" Ummm..." was his reply for, how could there be anything, when it was so cold and all the farm stands were closed? Finally he found something.
" Oh those things over there, mushrooms and herbs" he said.
Mushrooms and herbs. That was it. Just great.
Then he took me over to the meat counter and the man there helped me see what was local and organic. Pretty much everything was organic, and a good deal was local, but the price! Wow. $32 for 1 pound of grade 4 organic beef. That's a lot of money. If that doesn't prove how expensive organic food is, then I don't know what does. It's sad, for those who can't afford it, are not therefore getting the best quality food for them and their environment.
Afterwards he took me to the dairy and eggs section. Not bad, there was a ton of yogurt from farms like Seven Stars, and eggs. There was one or two brands of local organic milk, but I don't think any cheese, which makes no sense considering it's just milk transformed. A man who was helping me in this section gave me a free sample of yogurt, and it was delicious!
Besides what I just mentioned there was nothing else. Most of the farm stands were not open yet, except for some which  I will mention tomorrow so it did not look good for organic, local week. It is so hard to get food which is local and organic that it is not a wonder why people can't give up the luxuries of getting food any season. We walk into a store and expect our fruit to be there. That is what has happened over the years due to transportation.
Here was my menu for Earth Week:
Sunday and Monday Dinner- Roast Chicken with mushroom and herbs
Tuesday and Wednesday- Omelet and Sausage with mushroom and herbs
Thursday and Friday- Homemade bread cheese breads with herbs
Saturday- Omelets with mushrooms and herbs
Pretty bad huh? But not only that. Expensive huh? It's just not possible for a middle class family of five to have a complete diet of organic local food. It's too expensive.
When I told the BLOM committee about my meal, my sarcastic friend said " Well, our menu will be one day mushroom and herbs, and the next herbs and mushrooms." And he was right. So Earth Week was postponed.