41955 5th Street, Suite 101, Old Town Temecula, Ca

WHY BUY LOCAL?

Everyone understands the importance of taking care of your family first. Well buying locally just logically extends that rule a bit further to your communities and cities. 

Here are some hard and fast reasons to buy local.

The number one reason to buy locally is to strengthen your local economy. 

We buy nothing more frequently than buying our food.  Buying local food is by far the easiest way to keep your dollars circulating in your community. Getting to know the farmers who grow your food builds relationships based on understanding and trust, which is the foundation of strong communities.  How do they farm?  What type of water do they use on their crops, well or municipal and how clean is that water?  Where are their farms?  How nutritious is the soil they plant in? Reading labels at the grocery store is great but knowing your farmers practices takes the term "informed purchase" to a whole new level.

You'll get exceptional taste and freshness.

Local food from small family owned local farms is fresher and tastes at least 1 to 200% better than food shipped long distances from other states or countries. Simply because the seed that those foods come from are not breed for flavor, freshness, and nutrition but rather for lengthy sustainability during shipping and a long shelf life.  Again local farmers offer produce varieties bred for taste, nutrition and freshness.  Flavor at ripeness and nutrients go hand and hand in produce.

You'll support endangered family farms.

There's never been a more critical time to support your farming neighbors. With each local food purchase, you ensure that more of the money you spend on food goes to the farmer.   If the major source of our food becomes government owned or large corporate owned farms, then the conversation changes from what is good for the body to what is good for the corporation.

You'll safeguard your family's health.

Knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown or raised enables you to choose safe food from farmers who avoid or reduce their use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified seed in their operations. Buy food from local farmers you trust.

You'll protect the environment.

Local food doesn't have far to travel enabling far less toxic energy to be used in transportation. This significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions and packing materials. Buying local food also helps to make farming more profitable and selling farmland for development less attractive.

When you buy local food, you vote with your food dollars. This ensures that family farms in your community will continue to thrive and that healthy, flavorful, plentiful food will be available for not only your family but for future generations.