Why Buy Local?

Depending on where you live or how you buy your food, “local” can mean your backyard, or your bioregion. In places with long growing seasons and diversified crops, local could mean a county or a state. In an area like New England, with a lot of small states and microclimates, we consider the entire region in our definition of local.

When you buy local, everyone benefits:

• Local Economies: Your hard-earned money stays in your community, which in turn helps farms and businesses survive over the long haul.
• Preserving Farms: Thriving farms keep land in agricultural use and safe from development.
• Environment and Health: Reduced storage and travel time help locally grown products retain higher nutrient value, and use less energy, than their distant cousins.
• It tastes great! Let’s not forget, though, the most important part of this equation: local food is fresh and fresh is delicious.

Buying local starts from your home and reaches towards a connection with the people who grow, process, and deliver delicious, fresh food for your table. We feel pretty confident that once you try one, everyone will agree that a local tomato really is a better tomato.