[AT] Al Jones

[David Bruce]

Al,
The other Whole foods location is in Winston-Salem.  I call it "Whole 
Paycheck" (for obvious reasons).  I buy a few things there - especially 
if I'm looking for fresh produce that is unusual for this area.  
Excellent selection and "excellent" prices.
David
NW NC


Al Jones wrote:
> One more thing: Daddy is still growing hogs on the ground, for the last
> 8 months or so he has been selling them to Wholefoods Market. They have
> grocery stores in Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, and one more in NC but I
> forget where, as well as other states.  Most of his pork is going to the
> Raleigh store as I understand.  He has been asked to visit the Raleigh
> store several times--one time they actually had him passing out cubes of
> cooked pork as samples like at Sam's Club!  Wholefoods stresses organic,
> and locally grown.  (His pigs are not technically organic.)  Anyway, I
> can say having eaten a "hoghouse hog" and one of his hogs, side by side,
> there is definitely a difference in flavor.  If people are willing to
> pay extra for it, all the better!  Again, it gives consumers the option
> to choose, and I like that. (Plus, though it is negative to say so, I
> feel like we are sorta giving the finger to Joe Luter and Wendell
> Murphy, which I enjoy immensely, but that's another story)  Every time
> my wife takes out a package of homegrown pork chops from the freezer, I
> tell her we are "eating gourmet!"
>
> I can see an old tractor application with organics though, since it
> requires a lot of cultivation.  One made the comment that narrow row
> beans (15-20") was tough because you couldn't get a tractor down the
> rows.  All I could thing was, give me a Cub, Super A, even a C Farmall
> with one of those veggie cultivators on it, and I could clean 15" beans!
>
> Al
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