London Community Resource Center Why Buy Local

You'll Get Exceptional Taste and Freshness

Local food is fresher and tastes better than food shipped long distances.

Foods imported from other locations are often picked before they are ripe and are forced to ripen during shipping.

Fully vine-ripended fruits and vegetables have higher nutrional value and simply taste better.

You'll Support Your Local Economy

When you buy local, you connect with and support local farm families who produce the food you eat. It helps keep them in business and also helps create local jobs. You also help ensure there will be farms in your community for future generations.

You'll Help Sustain Food Diversity

Foods grown for transporting long distances are genetically chosen for the sole purpose of

with standing shipping and having a longer shelf life. Local farmers produce a wide variety of fruits, vegetables meats and other tasty edibles, many of which you can't buy in a regular marketplace.

You'll Protect the Environment

Food brought into this country either by plane or by truck causes environmental damage by

producing greenhouse emissions and depletion of fossil fuels. Buying local products reduces

pollution associated with extra packaging and transportation.

Encourage you local grocers and restaurants to include locally grown foods on their shelves and menus