When we moved, I found the best place to get great moving boxes was my favorite produce market. Around back looking through boxes for the best ones, I noticed how much produce is thrown out. Sometimes it would be whole pallets of stuff, and almost any day there was at least two 5ga buckets full.
I dont know about your part of Tx. but around here there are no, none, 0, zip, produce markets like we were used to. We were used to buildings with a hundred(maybe) varieties of fresh vegetables of fine quality at great prices. If you want to buy vegetables here, it will have to be at a grocery store, or drive 50mi south into Megatropolis where there are a jillion all on one property. Yep, Texas is defiantly a whole ‘nother world.
I have to admit, you do get treated differently if you are wearing a chef's jacket. ;)
I do need to look around for produce that's being thrown out.
/johnny