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• Commercial produce in retail stores is often a week old by the time it travels over 1,500 miles to get here, often requiring preservatives

• Commercial produce is sometimes picked too early, making fruit, for example, hard and tasteless.

• Locally grown food, on the other hand, is harvested at its peak in taste and nutrition for your immediate purchase.

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• Commercial food profits go to a middleman or giant business outside our community and state, whereas buying local keeps the money cycling here in our community, helping it to grow and prosper.

• Buying fresh produce from local producers helps preserve local farms and our precious rural community.

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• Getting to know our local food producers, their ethics, cultural heritage, and farming practices provides confidence in a safe supply of healthy food for our families.

• Buying from local farmers helps renew rural, small-scale agriculture in our communities and helps guarantee a consistent flow of healthy food year round.