You'll get exceptional taste and freshness. Local food is fresher, more nutritious and tastes better than food shipped long distances from other countries and provinces. Local farmers can offer varieties of produce bred for taste and freshness rather than for shipping and long shelf life. You'll protect the environment, strengthen your local economy, and support endangered family farms.

Local food doesn't have to travel far. This reduces carbon dioxide emissions and packaging materials. Buying local food also helps to make farming more profitable and the sale of farmland for development less attractive. It keeps your dollars circulating in your community. With each local food purchase, you ensure that more of your money spent on food goes to the farmer and less to the national retailers. Getting to know the farmers who grow your food builds relationships based on understanding and trust, the foundation of strong communities.

Knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown or raised allows you to choose safe food from farmers who choose not to use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified seed in their operations.