With fuel cost rising for whatever the "real" reason is....to eat local is more cost effective as well as more healthy. Small farms that produce vegetables, fruits, eggs and meat do not have the overhead commercial farms do, they practice more organically and do not have the transportation cost added on to the consumer. If a consumer goes into a grocery store in North Texas before May and finds items like watermelon or cantaloupe, corn or tomatoes These are NOT locally grown. More than likely they are out of Mexico or Chile! On top of that they will have been possibly gassed, raised in greenhouses, even hydroponically not grown in the sun and dirt.
So if a family grocery buyer seek out local producer through real farmers markets or at local small farms the benefits are numerous:
1. supporting local agriculture
2. not ingesting unwanted chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, hormones, steriods)
3. not having to pay a mark up for the distributor, big box store, and transportation cost
4. providing family with more healthy truly fresh food
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