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buying stuff from nearby so it tastes fresher and travels less than your last flight.
means procuring goods, especially food, from producers within a limited geographic radius of where they are sold or consumed.
from emerged as a countertrend to industrial agriculture in the 1990s, gaining traction alongside farmers markets and the slow food movement founded in italy in 1986.
food miles mythtransport is often under 10 percent of food emissions.
definition varieslocal can mean 50, 100, or 400 miles depending who asks.
price premiumlocal produce often costs more due to smaller scale.
for instance
farm to table — restaurant movement popularized in berkeley by chez panisse, 1971.
csa boxes — community supported agriculture, over 12000 farms in the us by 2020.