BENEFITS OF BUYING LOCAL

COMMUNITY BENEFITS:

• It keeps your money local, your not paying a company that’s based hundreds of miles away.
• They sell products based on the communities needs.
• Provide jobs for local citizens.
• Those jobs have better working conditions, it’s a smaller facility, so there’s less to have to keep clean and safe.
• Builds a good connection between eater and buyer.

FOOD BENEFITS:

• Crops are picked at their peek, cheese is handcrafted, and live stock products are processed nearby.
• There is less time between the farm and your table.
• Smaller farms don’t genetically modify foods to increase shelf life, or increase color. They grow many different crops to provide a long harvest, many colors, and flavors.
• You see the fields where your food is grown.

FARM BENEFITS:

• When farmers sell directly to consumers, they get full retail price, which helps families keep their land and businesses.
• Farms contribute more in taxes than they require, meaning they won’t lose their money.

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