In Juneau, Alaska, there is no such thing as a local produce shop, or butcher shop either. It's an urban area, stretching 46 miles from end to end. So even though the ocean has for millenia provided local residents with mussels, clams, various kinds of crab, shrimp, abalone and salmon, halibut and rockfish, sea kelp, sea lettuce and wild rhubarb, all of which and more are still harvested by many, 30,000 people would probably wipe it out in a hurry if that's all we subsisted on.

So all of our foodstuffs are shipped in. From time to time I have to remind myself that a couple of generations ago fresh produce came in only a couple of times a year. The quality of a lot of it is not very high but at least it's here.