local food

10 Reasons to Eat Local Food

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Jennifer Maiser
Eat Local Challenge Participant
  1. Eating local means more for the local economy.
  2. Locally grown produce is fresher.
  3. Local food just plain tastes better.
  4. Locally grown fruits and vegetables have longer to ripen.
  5. Eating local is better for air quality and pollution.
  6. Buying local food keeps us in touch with the seasons.
  7. Buying locally grown food is fodder for a wonderful story.
  8. Food with less distance to travel from farm to plate has less susceptibility to harmful contamination.

Cooking Locally in Minnesota

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Jenny Breen
Local Chef/Educator

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Jenny Breen has been a Chef/Educator in the Twin Cities for 21 years. She is the co-owner of Good Life Catering, and Resident Cooking Instructor at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. She is a passionate advocate for using locally grown, sustainably raised foods whenever possible. She is almost done with a cookbook featuring her original recipes using local, seasonal foods. She can be reached at www.goodlifecatering.com or 612-220-0163.

Community Supported Agriculture

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Land Stewardship Project
Reprinted from www.LandStewardshipProject.org

What is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)? At their most fundamental level, CSA farms provide a weekly delivery of organically grown produce to consumers during the growing season (approximately June to October in Minnesota). Those consumers, in turn, pay a subscription fee. But CSA consumers don't so much ''buy" food from particular farms as become ''members" of those farms.

Resources
To get a free CSA directory in print call 651-766-8895 or 651-653-0618 or online at www.landstewardshipproject.org/csa.html
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