Supporting local farmers benefits you, too!

If you're not having a 'GRAPE' day, 'LETTUCE' show you how with eight points on how local farming benefits you... 

1. Buying local contributes to the LOCAL ECONOMY. It keeps the revenue produced in the local community, keeps local farmers in business, and stops the negative affects of imported food on global warming and the environment.   

2. Locally grown foods have many more NUTRIENTS than store-bought, travelling produce. This makes for a healthier YOU and FAMILY!

3. Buying local creates a PERSONAL CONNECTION with the people around you. You get to know your community, and your community gets to know you!

4. Supporting local farms and local produce contributes to REDUCED TAXES! The government does not have to spend money on the services and shipping of local foods, keeping our taxes in check!

5. Local food = CLEAN ENVIRONMENT!

6. Local food PRESERVES OPEN SPACE! Without support for local farmers, farmland would be sold to build retail stores, office towers, and so on; meaning, there would no longer be open fields of grass or small-town, farming communities.

7. Without support for local farmers, LOCAL FOOD WOULD BE EXTINCT!

8. By supporting local farms today, you are ensuring there will be local farms tomorrow! This only guarantees that your children, and your children's children, will live to be a part of, and contribute to, local farming and local food!