I'm currently reading The Kind Diet and want to incorporate a lot of foods suggested in the book as I'd like to begin a vegan way of life. Unfortunately I am unable to find some of the food suggestions. ie) Umeboshi plums or hikiki, arame, wakame. Any suggestions?
Also because I live in a land locked, frozen 6mo/year location, most of the fruit and veggies available to me are trucked/flown in and non-organic.....ie) applies, bananas, kale, asparagus.
Plus, being Canadian I hear about collard greens all the time watching American tv etc. but have no idea what they are. Is there another name for them?

Eden Foods ships those sorts of things (umeboshi plums, hijiki, arame, wakame, etc.) to Canada - check em out - http://www.edenfoods.com/store/index.php?cPath=29&eID=7b536a02e0a13d99803e6bd4d47ac240

I don't think there's another name for Collard Greens but Kale works well as a substitute in a lot of Collard recipes if you can get that there.