Locally grown produce is healthy and tasty!
Eating local produce is a great way to support farmers in your community while eating the freshest food possible. After all, it’s grown naturally right in your area! Beyond the benefits of eating produce, getting your fruits, vegetables, and greens from nearby has many benefits of its own. Still need convincing? Here are 5 reasons you should eat local produce.
It Tastes Better!
When your produce comes from close to home, it spends less time in storage, transport, and on the shelf. This allows you to get your produce at the peak of its freshness–and flavor. Simply put, local produce just tastes better! Try buying some vegetables from a local produce grower and taste the difference for yourself.
Grown Naturally
With the produce you find in the grocery store, you don’t always know who grew your food, or how they did it. With a local farmer, you have a much clearer idea of their farming practices and you know the environment where your food was grown. Try a local sustainable farm for produce: it doesn’t get much more natural than that.
Better For You
On large scale farms, produce will often be picked long before it’s ripe so that it will ripen by the time it reaches the shelves of your local grocery store. But with local farms, you can count on fresher produce that’s been picked while ripe, making it not only taste better, but also maintain more of its natural nutrition.
Supporting Local Farmers
One of the greatest benefits to eating local produce is that you’re supporting local farmers. You can speak directly to the people who grow your food and support farmers that contribute to your community directly. Not only will you be able to enjoy the freshest seasonal produce, you’ll also be able to do some good in your community.
Better for the Environment
Local food is more eco-friendly. With no need to transport your produce across the country (or even the world), local food involves far less oil consumption to get to you. This reduces the gas consumption and pollution involved with transporting your food. Eating locally grown produce is an excellent way to reduce your carbon footprint and enjoy food grown right in your community.
SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE FARMING BY CHOOSING BAYWATER FARMS
Baywater Farms is a sixth-generation family-owned and operated farm servicing Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Hyattsville, Salisbury, Maryland, Delaware beaches, and the Eastern Shore. Baywater Farms is capable of meeting the demands of your produce distributor, restaurant produce supplier, CSA produce supplier, or wholesale produce supplier while maintaining the integrity and character of a small farm. Baywater Farms is about more than just hydroponic lettuce—we also grow heirloom beefsteak tomatoes, shishito peppers, hydroponic custom-blended spring mix, custom grows, radish mix, Maryland’s own fish peppers, and more. When you work with Baywater Farms, you work with an experienced, ethical, and local farm dedicated to providing the highest-quality heirloom produce possible.