Eat your (local) fruits and veggies
Local food–it’s a big phenomenon these days. Farmers markets are springing up everywhere; CSAs are overwhelmed with interest; urban homesteading is on the rise. Hopefully this isn’t all just a passing fad as there are many advantages to eating local:
- unlike large, industrial farms, small farms generally practice crop rotation, which mitigates the need for chemical fertilizers and helps to maintain the health of the soil,
- locally grown and raised food often uses less energy for distribution than does food produced far away
- locally grown fruits and vegetables are fresher and may have higher nutritional content as a result (there’s a study underway to test this hypothesis)
So eat your fruits and veggies–and buy them from local growers (to read about the benefits of eating locally, click here; to find local food sources near you, click here and here).
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