Local food

With local food you'll get exceptional taste and freshness, strengthen your local economy, support endangered family farms, safeguard your family's health, and protect the environment.

[edit] Local food tips

• Buy seasonal food

• Local food when travelling

• Buying local vegetables

• Start somewhere.

• Take a child shopping with you, pick up one of the offending products and say quite loudly "Well we’re not buying that, think of the energy it’s used up just getting here!"

• Phase in gradually

• Become a tailgate shopper

• Pick your own

• Join a CSA

• Enlarge your garden

• Think like a squirrel

• Explore new foods.

• Rediscover old treasures

• Double your recipes

• Track down specials and buy in bulk

• Log your food miles

• Follow the trail

• Have a party

[edit] Relevant links

• www.localfoodworks.org
• f3 -the Local Food Consultants
• www.local-food.net
• www.buylocalfood.co.uk
• www.localfoodweb.co.uk
• www.localharvest.org
• www.foodroutes.org
• Stroud community agriculture
• Local Food