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1. Locally grown food tastes better.
Know where your food comes from. Focus on local and regional brands.
2. Local produce is better for you.
Learn your local growing season and what produce is available during that time.
3. Local food preserves genetic diversity.
Shop your local farmer's market, roadside stands, or U-pick farms.
4. Local food is GMO-free.
Local farmers don't have access to genetically modified seed, and most of them wouldn't use it even if they could. If you are opposed
to eating bioengineered food, you can rest assured that locally grown produce was bred the old-fashioned way, as nature intended.
Local farmers who sell direct to consumers cut out the middleman and get full retail price for their food - which means farm
families can afford to stay on the farm, doing the work they love.
6. Local food builds community.
When you buy direct from the farmer, you are re-establishing a time-honored connection between the eater and the grower.
7. Local food preserves open space.
As the value of direct-marketed fruits and vegetables increases, selling farmland for development becomes less likely. When you buy
locally grown food, you are doing something proactive about preserving the agricultural landscape.
8. Local food keeps your taxes in check.
Farms contribute more in taxes than they require in services, whereas suburban development costs more than it generates in taxes,
according to several studies. On average, for every $1 in revenue raised by residential development, governments must spend $1.17 on
services, thus requiring higher taxes of all taxpayers. For each dollar of revenue raised by farm, forest, or open space, governments
spend 34 cents on services.
9. Local food supports a clean environment and benefits wildlife.
Preserve some of the local harvest. Start with the "easy-to-freeze" foods such as strawberries, rhubarb, corn or blueberries.
10. Local food is about the future.
Plant a garden.
Buying local food sustains local farms.
Know where your food comes from. Focus on local and regional brands.
2. Local produce is better for you.
Learn your local growing season and what produce is available during that time.
3. Local food preserves genetic diversity.
Shop your local farmer's market, roadside stands, or U-pick farms.
4. Local food is GMO-free.
Local farmers don't have access to genetically modified seed, and most of them wouldn't use it even if they could. If you are opposed
to eating bioengineered food, you can rest assured that locally grown produce was bred the old-fashioned way, as nature intended.
Local farmers who sell direct to consumers cut out the middleman and get full retail price for their food - which means farm
families can afford to stay on the farm, doing the work they love.
6. Local food builds community.
When you buy direct from the farmer, you are re-establishing a time-honored connection between the eater and the grower.
7. Local food preserves open space.
As the value of direct-marketed fruits and vegetables increases, selling farmland for development becomes less likely. When you buy
locally grown food, you are doing something proactive about preserving the agricultural landscape.
8. Local food keeps your taxes in check.
Farms contribute more in taxes than they require in services, whereas suburban development costs more than it generates in taxes,
according to several studies. On average, for every $1 in revenue raised by residential development, governments must spend $1.17 on
services, thus requiring higher taxes of all taxpayers. For each dollar of revenue raised by farm, forest, or open space, governments
spend 34 cents on services.
9. Local food supports a clean environment and benefits wildlife.
Preserve some of the local harvest. Start with the "easy-to-freeze" foods such as strawberries, rhubarb, corn or blueberries.
10. Local food is about the future.
Plant a garden.
Buying local food sustains local farms.
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