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Several places say it takes 10 oil calories for each food calorie in the supermarket.

A show today claimed 40% of vegetables were grown in Victory Gardens during WWII.

Let's see what you can think of.

Packaging:

Your Chilean grapes come in a plastic bag that was in a box that was in a case that was probably shrink wrapped on a pallet for five layers of packaging. Local produce from the supermarket probably only has two or three layers of packaging--from your farmers' market maybe two layers, fresh from your garden, none.

My wife worked in the produce department of a grocery store in Florida, they got their oranges from California...

I'll try to find a source on this later (I think it's Michael Pollan), but the average number of miles food travels in the US is close to 1500.

Read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver. She talks about the miles that food travels. kevin