There Is Only One Thing I Like About Autumn..

Well, it has been a long, long time since my last visit to England. I remember the beautiful countryside and I am sure that Autumn is a great time there. What I do know is that I wish I had the time here in Grayson, Georgia to plant my own garden and to grow my own food. I think it is very important to grow your own food because there is no certainty that what we are buying in the grocery stores these days is safe. When you do self-sustaining farming and planting, you know that what you are getting is coming directly from the soil of this beautiful earth and you know that it is and only is you that would be to blame if your food was not right. However, to have fresh vegetables and fruits from your own garden would be great! Nice discussion Janey1966. Thanks and Happy Weekend!

i like the apples that are grown here in canada. i do like locally grown produce but i also like the strawberries that come from california.

Hard to find apples grown in Texas, and I don't like Red Delicious, I don't find them at all delicious... I like Macintosh apples, actually a Canadian apple, but grown world wide. The Fiji is also a good apple, no idea where it hails from. I actually don't much care where the food comes from, tho I know that here in Texas we get strawberries that get their start in the season way down in Mexico, work their way north as the season progresses I guess I have to say the grapes I ate from my sister's back yard when she lived in central Washington state were the BEST grapes I ever ate!

I do not like football at all.I think that with all the cold it is Autumn and Winter that i hate.I really summer from my joints and other health problems when it gets this time of the year and there are alot less people that tend to be about aswell,like people that you would normally see the rest of the year.

Oh yeah, I prefer local produce whenever I can get it. It is difficult to get things like apples and stone fruit here in my part of Australia though that are local, as there is only one tiny little region where they are mainly grown in Queensland. It is the most southern part of the state and high in altitude so the climate and plant life is more like southern New South Wales or Victoria. Apples here are awesome in winter and spring, but as the season gets old, the apples become flavourless as they have been stored too long. They mostly come from the southern states too, which is like your apples coming from somewhere else in Europe in terms of the distance they travel, but we do not have much choice here. I try to avoid buying apples from the large supermarkets as they have been grown with chemicals and have been stored for over a year sometimes! They are nice and shiny, but unnatural.

I know just what you mean, nice strangely shaped and marked apples, none of these perfect sized and shaped 'plastic' ones!! The trees round here are all laden with them and most farms have baskets of them outside the gates for people to help themselves to! I have been amazed this week to find that my raspberry bushes have given me a big bowl full of lovely big raspberries - a nice and welcome autumn bonus!!

Note to self: head on up to Apple Hill this weekend and buy some American apples grown in America, specifically California. lol

Yeah i prefer english apples. I don't like chinese or japanese apples. I can't understand them.

Hello Janey. That's one of my favourite things about Autumn too, I love home grown apples. I also like to go walking and pick the newly ripened hazel nuts from trees, they're delicious. I always try to buy British produce when I go shopping but sometimes it's difficult and a lot of the time it doesn't make sense. We have lots of strawberry farms where I live, people come from all over Europe to pick the strawberries but I don't know where the fruit is sent to...the supermarkets are always full of foreign ones no matter what time of year it is.