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Exceptional taste and freshness
Local food is fresher and tastes better than food shipped long distances because local farmers can offer produce bred for taste and freshness rather than for shipping and long shelf life.
Safeguarding your family's health
Local produce is healthy for you, because purchased soon after harvest, it retains its nutrients.
GMO-free food
Knowing where your food comes from, and how it is grown or raised, enables you to choose safe food from farmers who avoid or reduce their use of chemicals or genetically modified seed in their operations.
Preservation of genetic diversity
Supporting endangered sustainable family farms
With each local food purchase, you ensure that more of your money spent on food goes to local farm families.
Building local community
A good connection between eater and grower builds trust and relationships.
Preservation of open space
Strengthening of the local economy, keeping taxes in check.
Buying local food keeps your dollars circulating locally, while building relationships with farmers that grow communities’ economic base.
Protection of the environment
Buying local food reduces the need for transport while making farming more profitable and selling farmland to developers less attractive.
Positively impacting our future
By supporting local farmers today, you can help ensure that there will be farms in your community tomorrow.
Interested in being a Big River Foods Buyer?
Interested in being a Big River Foods Farmer? |