In recent supermarket news...

A farm on top of a supermarket: BBC recently covered a not-for-profit project to turn the roof of a supermarket in London into an organic vegetable garden. Compost heaps and worms on the roof turn produce waste from the store into soil for the garden. There are plans to harvest rainwater as well. The fruits and vegetables grown in the garden will be sold in the grocery store; proceeds will support the garden. The project is staffed by local volunteers, for whom the rooftop garden serves as a haven from the London bustle.

“Ethnic American” aisle: To celebrate Fourth of July, Grist has a hilarious video exploring the U.S. “ethnic” food section in a German grocery store.

Supermarkets in Slovenia

I’m on a walking tour of a few Slovenian villages with my parents and thought I’d get this travel blog started before heading to India in mid-August.

Since my research in India will investigate how supermarkets are affecting fruit and vegetable consumption there, I of course wanted to investigate the supermarkets in Slovenia as well.

At the Mercator grocery store in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia—where we stayed the first three nights—produce took center stage. It was the first thing shoppers saw as they entered the store and the last thing they passed on the way out.

The supermarket also sold fruit and vegetable seeds. I’ve never seen seeds in U.S. supermarkets, but maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough. Let me know in the comments section if you’ve seen seeds in U.S. grocery stores.