Moose Pharmacy in Mount Pleasant is focusing on more than idling in its sustainability efforts. The pharmacy has also started selling locally grown food.

Pharmacist Whit Moose says one local farmer had been selling hot house tomatoes and is planning to sell lettuce there.  Among the other local offerings are honey, beef and pork from pasture-range cows and hogs, brick-oven breads, organic flour and eggs from free-range chickens. A local baker sells homemade cakes and cupcakes.

“We’ve talked about some local cheese and butter,” he says, “and, of course, when summer gets here and produce is available, we hope to have a good selection of that. We’d love to see this take off to where we’d have to have an alternate location. We’d love to take it to the next level.”

Moose also makes it a point to offer regional products in the Mount Pleasant pharmacy.  “We’ve got ice cream from Mooresville,” he says, “and, of course, Sundrop and Cheerwine.”

Offering locally grown food and regional products is just one way Moose Pharmacy tries to help improve the quality of life in Mount Pleasant. “We’re not only making ourselves more sustainable,” Moose says, “we’re using less fuel to get products here and we’re helping our local farmers and producers.”