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rur ejuuupie, me average apple in a grocery stare has traveled 1,726 miles from where it was picked. With an orchard around every corner in Rappahannock, there’s no need to buy anything other than local apples.
The power needed to refrigerate produce during those long journeys also takes energy and causes pollution. And transported food usually is accompanied by more packaging; which ultimately ends up in a landfill
Eating locally grown food is also a way to ensure that food dollars remain in the community
For every dollar spent at a local business, 68 cents recirculates through the community; according to the nonprofit organization Local First However; only 43 cents of every dollar spent at a chain or other nonlocal store stays in the community.
‘ Working farms are a key to Rappahannock’s scenic beauty which attracts tourists and holds property values high. Keeping those forms profitable is a key to ensuring that agricultural land is not developed into housing.
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Last but not least, locally raised food is often tastier and 'more nutritious than storebought food. Fresh produce has more nutrients and diocooe battKng antimiAmtii than fend that was picked several weeks ago.
In a grocery store, “it might be three or four weeks since ffhut] has been off the tree,” said ■Jesse Jenkins at Jenkins Orchard in WoodviDe.'Tt doesn’t have any flavor”
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