How do you manage to buy laoclly during the winter months? With great effort. During winter I would prefer to be in shorts, flip flops, t-shirt, and munching on a mango instead of bundled up in layers chugging coffee and shivering. Here we do have several local farmer co-ops and what have you but winter is still pretty much a grocery store deal due to the lack of laoclly grown fresh fruits and produce during the cold months. We try to get fruits and produce at Natures Own and places such as that when at all possible. Otherwise it's grocery store and there are limits to being picky about country of origin. Trying to find the right balance between ethics and reality is the hard part.