Eating Local
Conservation Tip #29 – eat local!! from Brighter Planet on Vimeo.
As this short video shows us, our food is more well-traveled than we are! All of those miles add up to a lot of money spent and resources wasted.
Summer is here, and with it come the availability of fresh, locally grown foods that we can feed our families. Many families are planting a garden this year, but if you don’t have the time or space for that you can check to see if there is a CSA farm near you – that’s Community Supported Agriculture. They usually give you a great bargain for your produce, and more often than not it’s all organic! For example, our local CSA (Garden Treasures) has plans ranging from $450 to $800 for shares in their produce… and we will be getting produce each week from this Thursday (June 18) until November 27… That’s 5.5 months! It’s all organic, grown within 5 miles of my house, ans saves me a TON of money. The smallest share starts at $18/week. To get a comperable amount of produce each week I can easily spend $80 at Safeway… and it’s not organic or local!
Don’t have a CSA drop point near you? How about a farmer’s market? There are farmer’s markets all over the place, and the produce is (generally) locally and organically grown.
On top of that, you can build a relationship with the people who grow your food!
This is just one way to both improve your families health and cut down on waste. Eating local saves you money, helps the farmers actually make money, cuts down on the poisions that are put into our food and runs off onto our rivers, and cuts down on travel time. And the produce is better for you, since it was generally just picked within 2-3 days on your family eating it.
That sounds like a win-win to me!
To help find a CSA farm or farmer’s market near you, check out LocalHarvest.org!
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