Info Sheet: Why You Should Be A Locavore?
1. Taste the Freshness
At our Organic Shop (and many others), most local produce has been picked just hours or days before and sent straight from the organic farm. It comes to you fresh and with its full flavor, unlike imported or supermarket food that may have been picked weeks or months before.
2. Get to KNOW your food
Buying food today is complicated.
What pesticides were used?
Is that corn genetically modified?
People who eat locally (and organic-cally) find it easier to get answers. Many build relationships with farmers whom they trust. And when in doubt, they can drive out to the farms and see for themselves. There are many organic farms that allow visitors.
3. Reduce Your Food Miles
How does a WASHINGTON apple arrive on our plate?
Imported foods are transported many miles across oceans to reach us, consequently burning up lots of
fossil fuel. Eating locally reduces food miles, thereby promoting energy savings, and decreases carbon footprint.
4. Rediscover Local Flavours
95% of the vegetables we eat come from only 20 species of plants.
98% of our vegetable varieties have disappeared over the last century in our rush to sameness.
Ever tried the Kedondong? Bayam Hutan? Misai Kuching?
These are just a few of the local flavours that many of us has forgotten.
5. Support Local Farmers
Local food production strengthens local economies by protecting small farms, local jobs and local shops,
thereby increasing food security.
Buying local also means giving back to the local economy. Money spent at local food businesses are
more likely to stay in the local economy and be re-invested.
Be A Locavore – pdf format
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Hi Organic Wongs,
I stumbled onto your blog and I am happy to have done so. I agree completely. What is wrong with eating local papaya and bananas? Must we eat berries from a million miles away when we know our guava contains more Vitamin C than their berries? I am all for eating local fruits and vegetables. Yes, it’s good to be a Locavore. Let’s be proud of our local herbs and produce. They’re worth a second look surely.