My personal view is that I absolutely want to eat local and seasonal. Just not exclusively. I rarely eat asparagus, strawberries, mushrooms or green garlic from anywhere except the Greenmarket.
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Me too!
I always shop at grocery stores within a 10 mile / 16 km radius of where I live!
I am hyper local. 
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It may be hard to believe as you drive down the Turnpike but The Garden State is the nickname for NJ, the most densely populated state. Since 1984 the state has been highlighting produce grown in the state. Since NJ isn’t all that big I’d say that anything grown and then sold/eaten in-state can be considered local.
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And some of us bend our local rule to enjoy Jersey tomatoes, Georgia peaches, etc. I live in Canada and I would have to drive to Detroit to buy a Georgia peach in season, even though Canadian stores sell Californian peaches from May to August (maybe longer).
Canadian peach season is late July- early September.
I love local peaches in August. I buy them from a truck that brings them from Niagara region.
I can’t explain it, but as soon as it’s Labour Day or chilly at night, I stop craving peaches.
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In NJ the peach season is from late June through mid-September. I just looked it up and we rank fourth in US peach production after California, South Carolina and Georgia. I’m guessing they all grow different varieties given the diversity of climates. I love peaches but only when super fresh. It will be a while before the ones on our tree will be ready to eat (if they stay on the tree that long and aren’t eaten by local animals)
They look much bigger in the photo than they really are.
We’re 9th-10th in tomato production.
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I drive through Amish country on my way home. They grow nice gardens by me. In stores I look at the labels.
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Red Haven peaches were my favorite treat during the summers we spent in Michigan. Theyre grown in Michigan.
Also Traverse City cherries!
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Red Haven is still the main variety grown in Ontario. Ontario donut peaches were available a few places last year.
I love trying other varieties when I travel.
One vendor in the Union Square green market in NYC carries at least a dozen different plums during plum season. I can’t find that sort of variety in Ontario.
I live around 45 minutes from Port Huron and 2 h from Detroit. Some good cherries are grown on the east side of Lake Huron, too. Smaller towns than Traverse City. Arkona, Bleinheim nd Vittoria are some of the cherry growing towns in Ontario.
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More the memory of hot summer afternoons eating fruit and spitting the pits out the open window. Lol.
Cruising the North Channel and stopping to pick a handful of wild blueberries for a snack…back then you could drink the water right out of the lake with no worries of illness.
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