I just learned that an average meal travels 22,000 miles to reach your plate! Each ingredient is trucked or flown from where it’s grown to where it’s packaged to where it’s sold. Buying local food and produce is actually something easy and positive you can do personally for the climate change issue. If one million people switched to buying locally produced food for a year, it’d save 625,000 tons of CO2. It feels better to buy local and to get your produce from farmers markets in your town. You’re also supporting local farms at the same time. We have a local farm in Goleta, CA Fairview Gardens, that sells organic produce at a farm stand and at market. The farm is an important part of the town, kids get to visit on fieldtrips and during the summer, and the community has access to local, healthy produce. Check it out and consider eating locally http://www.fairviewgardens.org
Your Food Miles
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Amen. It’s not just about food miles, there is a lot more value here such as supporting sustainable agriculture that is good for you and the environment, keeping small family farms alive in your community, and eating well outside the processed food industry nightmare. Did you know, when you buy food at the grocery store, the farmer might get about 19 cents per dollar you spend? When you buy direct from the farmer, 100 percent of your food dollar supports his sustainable efforts. That’s big.
Learn more about the local food movement at these sites:
It will change your life for the better, and a whole lot of other people’s as well! |
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