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Everyone wants to know what they can do to “go green,” and for everyone buying locally is the first and most adoptable answer. Here are some highlights to buying local:

Flavor and Nutrition: When you buy local food from your farmers market or farm stand, you are buying food that is in season. In season foods means foods that weren’t tricked into growing when and where they normally wouldn’t. Local, in season foods mean less of what you don’t want: insecticides and growth chemicals, and more of what you do: flavor and nutrition.

Cost Savings: Food that’s sold in the grocery and big box stores automatically comes with a price tag that accounts for the gas used to truck or fly it in to you. When you buy your produce locally, you’re dodging that inflated gas tax as well as keeping your own carbon footprint low by not driving far to make your purchase.

Supporting your Community: Buying local keeps your money in your community. You money is your vote so when you choose to buy an apple from a farmer two miles away instead of an orange trucked-in from two states away, you’re voting to help your community thrive!

Organic fertilizers are capable of feeding plants while being very environmental friendly. They build the soil around them too. Soil that contain an abundance of organic material tend to be airy and loose, which helps retain moisture and nutrients. Plus, they help soil organisms grow and build healthy roots. Also, the material that organic fertilizers are typically made of come from plant, animal, and rock sources. Microbes slowly break down these materials. This results in long term nutrition and steady growth.

Unlike organic fertilizers, synthetic fertilizers are capable of growing plants quickly. However, Read the rest of this entry »