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“So the next best thing became buying locally” Zuschlag said. “The emphasis on buy local is coming at a great timo because Rappahannock is poised to take advantage of that.”
Local difference
\ There are plenty of reasons to get food from local producers.
Buying from nearby forms is better for the environment, .keeps dollars circulating in the local community and helps maintain the profitability of .agricultural land.
In the United States, food travels an average of1,500 miles from the form to the grocery store, according to the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture in San •Francisco.
Trucks, trains, airplanes ships burn fossil fuel, which pauses air and water pollution, while traveling thousands of miles to transport types of food that may be growing down the road in Rappahannock.
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