My farmer is selling grocery store produce.

Today my mother and I went out to get pumpkins.  In between yelling demands for her to stop walking so fast so I didn’t have to hobble after her like an idiot, I noticed something.
Produce in Virginia is ridiculous.  It took me a little  while to be completely certain because I get abnormally excited about carving pumpkins, I'm gonna make a kraken or a unicorn on mine this year.

I already had some notion that this was going to be an issue, because every grocery store in my area has a produce section the size of a postage stamp.  But today this issue was solidified when I went to a farmer’s fruit stand.  Here is what he was selling:

    Pomegranates
    Sweet potatoes
    Apples
    Squash
    tomatoes
    Gourds
    Eggplant
    Boiled peanuts
    Sausage
    Onions
    Green beans
    Some other stuff

Here are the things that did not have GROCERY STORE PRODUCE STICKERS on them:
   
    Sweet Potatoes
    Tomatoes
    Gourds
    Green beans
    Sausage

Really?  I moved here?  I live on a steady diet of steak, vegetables, and cool ranch Doritos.  I don’t think I can handle my pound of onions costing MORE than my Doritos.

I cant believe this I happening to me.

Even worse, I am shocked at the fact that the farmer is buying stuff from the grocery store.  I understand, farmer dude, it’s the end of the season and you can’t sell as much because stuff isn’t, well, growing.  But I have a sneaking suspicion, since you are offering pomegranates, this is a regular occurrence.  I think my farmer stand sells grocery store produce.  And I think he sells it on a regular basis. 

I feel so betrayed.

I am supremely disappointed in this state.  How can produce be cheaper in Michigan?!  Its practically above the permafrost line.  Nothing grows as well there as it does down in the south where its warm and fertile and full of gruff farmers with southern accents and a stern disposition.