Preserving the summer
Locavores have been known to wax poetic about the deliciousness of the pumpkins and squash they have stored in their root cellars. Yet you can’t compare a rutabaga to a summer’s day. That would be a tomato or a peach. Part of what makes those so appealing is the longing for them.
However, even when people were locavores by necessity rather than by choice, they liked to bring out a jar of summer’s best now and again in the dead of winter. It was with this idea that Jim Mills and Ben Mustin started MM Local Foods with an eye toward providing products reminiscent of Grandma’s prized tomatoes. The company cans tomatoes, peaches and peppers from Colorado farms and allows you to track the specific farm they came from at www.mmlocalfoods.com .
“Keeping the food as close to its natural texture, flavor and appearance was very important to us,” Mills says.
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