Local Produce Tastes Sweeter!

Though supporting local farmers seems an obvious choice, the benefits to our world and our community are actually even greater than most people realize. It's like a giant domino effect:

  • buying local organics keeps money within our communities
  • organic farms are sustained, and conventional farmers are motivated to convert their farms to organics (as our good friends at Norfolk and Nightengale did this year -- Bravo!)
  • pollution is reduced by as much as 3000%, as there's no need for food to travel thousands of miles to reach the table
  • more farms and less trucks balance each other out. It is a smooth transition between the way we used to do things and the way we do things now.

Still need more reasons to spring for local?

  1. Ontario produce is amazing! We grow some of the finest greens, apples, berries, cucumbers, tree-fruit, potatoes, tomatoes, melons, peppers, fresh spices, and squash in the whole world.
  2. When fruit doesn't travel, it usually tastes better, as it can be picked far closer to ripeness, and stays on the plant much longer.