Why Eat Local?

Governor Heineman Proclaimed July 5-11th at Nebraska Local Foods Awareness Week

Overview

  • Why Should You Buy Locally Produced Foods?

    - It supports family farms
    - Helps your local economy
    - Fresh foods are more nutritious
    - You can get to know your farmers
    - It is better for the environment

Nebraska Local Foods Cook-Off

Plus, you may discover many delicious varieties of unique local foods. Produce that is shipped thousands of miles may have to be bred and picked for a longer transport and storage time. Locally grown foods can focus on flavor and freshness.

What a terrific return on your investment in local foods! As a TV commercial commented on some of the benefits of their product -- priceless!

Additional Resources and Websites:

  • Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life
    Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver wrote this incredible book.
    In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (HarperCollins Publishers, May 2007), our family documented our year of procuring as much of our food as possible from neighboring farms and our own backyard.


  • The Community Food Security Coalition
    Community food security is a condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice.

  • The Whole Foods Market

  • The Eat Local Challenge

  • Slow Food USA: Supporting Good, Clean, and Fair Food

  • Local Harvest

  • ATTRA
    What is ATTRA?
    ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service. It provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States. (ATTRA was formerly known as the "Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas" project.)

    Looking for the latest in sustainable agriculture and organic farming news, events and funding opportunities? We feature all that, plus in-depth publications on production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing, organic certification, and highlights of local, regional, USDA and other federal sustainable ag activities.

  • Micheal Pollman- Author
    is the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, winner of the James Beard Award, and The Omnivore's Dilemma, which was named one of the ten best books of the year by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. Previous books include Second Nature, The Botany of Desire, and A Place of My Own, pictured here. Pollan appears in Food, Inc. a documentary now in theaters, and The Botany of Desire, which will be broadcast on public television on October 28, 2009. Pollan is a....