Hey, don't I know you from somewhere?

Just inside the vegetable section, sitting in the centre of the aisle is a box filled with squash and gourds of all varieties. There's Butternut Squash, Sweet Potato Squash, big orange ones, some blue grey coloured ones - it was quite a sight.

On each of the round, and not-so round, offerings there was a sticker with the name and preparation instructions. There, towards the bottom of the bilingual sticker were the words 'Eat local produce!' and in bold letters below that the name of the farm operation and Aylmer, Ontario. Aylmer. Ontario.

Having just picked up some local produce we moved on to do the rest of the shopping. I came across the radishes a short time later. I love radishes, not with squash mind you. There were bunches of radishes that looked awesome. And, of course, there were pre-cut and packaged ones too. They looked very familiar. They should. They were from a company in Burlington, Ontario.

So it's no wonder that the 401 is so busy all of the time. Those trucks have to get the local produce to grocery stores 1800 kilometres away. Think of that the next time one goes screaming by you at 140 kph - he's trying to get me the radishes and squash that I need.