Local food benefits
- Reduce your carbon footprint.
- Fresh food often picked the same day
- Better nutrition and health
- Builds the local economy and social fabric.
- Better tasting
Why is local food is sometimes more expensive?
- Farm workers live with the same cost of living that you experience.
- Local food is generally better quality. You would not hesitate to pay more
for an automobile or a garment if it was superior in quality. Fresh food is no
different.
- Economy of scale. Generally speaking, the more you grown, the less
expensive it is to grow.