Help your community by purchasing goods from local growers and small family farms.  These purchases not only will help your local economy, your family will also receive the freshest produce and product now, instead of a week later, which is in most cases when the produce will hit grocery stores for your purchase. Don’t forget to take into account the distance traveled from outside the US is substantially longer.

Using resources from the Local Harvest Web site, you - the consumer - can locate local farmers and growers with product for sale. Once you locate the producer, you will be able to contact them or visit them at your local Farmer’s Market and make your purchase.

Local Harvest also offers an on-line shop where you can purchase products from growers within the US, resources to help you better understand the Buy Local movement, a monthly newsletter with tips, health benefits, and recipes, as well as a forum for discussion among others purchasing local.

In order to best understand the full wealth of information offered at the Local Harvest Web site, I suggest you take some time and go visit their site and buy local.

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