The kitchen pantry was well stocked, but I was forced to send Shenk out more days than not to purchase the fresh vegetables and fruit that Susan craved.
In 1912, E. W. Grove began sending a regular payment of $150 to the principal with instructions that it be used to purchase fruit for the students.
Joe had seen the same method being used earlier that evening when people purchased fruit or vegetables from street vendors.
Daily caravans traveled between Zazesspur and Marakir, the farmers' market located at the intersection of the Trade Way with the Sulduskoon River, to purchase fruit and grain and mutton.
It took almost half an hour to reach the market-place, where he purchased fruit and dried fish.
To save money, he purchases old, wilting fruit and brings it back to life, as ripe and juicy as the day it was first picked.
Pine Island is mostly zoned as agricultural land; some visitors travel more than a hundred miles to purchase tropical fruit such as lychee and mangos grown and sold on Pine Island.
Jews, for example, were prohibited from purchasing eggs, butter, milk, meat or fruit.
In 1984 the estate purchased the Trailside Vineyard in Rutherford, having previously purchased fruit from the site, introduced as a single vineyard bottling in 1989.
By 1992, using only purchased fruit because of vineyard disasters, it was down to 4,800.