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Local Harvest LogoThere’s been lots of talk lately about reducing your carbon footprint and your negative impact by purchasing locally grown produce. The idea being that if it’s grown locally, it required less energy to get to you. It’s a really great idea I think, but sometimes its hard to find the local farmer’s market. This website can help. http://www.localharvest.org/

Do you realize that a majority of the produce in the US is picked about a week before being placed on supermarket shelves? On average its shipped anywhere from 1000 to 2000 miles before being sold. When you take into account produce imported from Mexico, Asia, Canada, South America, and other places, those distances can grow exponentially.

Imagine all the food wasted through the shipping process. All the CO2 released through the burning of gas to transport it. Think of all the packaging that can be reused because the merchandise is just dropped off…

It really just makes more cents to buy locally if you can.

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Posted in Resources on July 5th, 2007

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