What are You Eating?
July 15th, 2009
Are you feeding your family the most nutritious food available? Are you getting the best food for your buck?
During the summer months, produce is harvested fresh and sold locally at road side stands and farmers markets all over the country. During these months, I do my best to buy any produce I don’t already grow, from local farmers.
Buying local produce is not only better for your health, it’s better for the environment. They’re Green Greens!! HA!
People were originally intended to eat locally. Your body reaches a certain balance that thrives in your local area. You become immune to the viruses and bugs. Don’t believe me? Ever hear, “If you go to Mexico, don’t drink the water”?
Your body finds more nutritional value in your local produce because it comes from an area in which you reside, but also because it doesn’t lose it’s nutrient content while it’s traveling in questionable refrigeration across the country or even across oceans.
Being that the produce hits the stand usually a day after it’s harvested, it’s got peak nutritional value. Being that it doesn’t have to be packaged, shipped, driven, stocked and sold, you also will see a reduction in price.
So, it’s better for your body, your wallet, your local community, and your planet. How can you go wrong?!
Eat green greens!
Here are 2 VERY awesome links to help you and your family start eating better locally!
LocalHarvest.org is a site that will tell you what produce is available in your community. I was SHOCKED at what’s readily available in MY area. There’s so much more than I ever knew.
EatWild.com is a site that will tell you where there are farms in your local area where you can purchase beef, pork, and chicken that is raised locally, lives free range, is grass fed, is antibiotic and hormone free and is humainly killed.
Childhood obesity is being linked in part to the growth hormones injected into mass produced cattle. By buying locally, you’re supporting your local farmers AND you’re now one less family supporting the inhuman treatment and slaughter of animals. As long as it’s in demand, it will be mass produced.
Do yourself, your family, your community and your world a favor and buy locally raised food whenever you can!
