Why Local?
THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD REASONS TO BUY LOCALLY GROWN FOOD!
Exceptional Taste and Freshness: Local farmers offer food that is bred for taste and freshness rather than shipping and long shelf life.
Strengthen Local Economy: Buying locally grown food keeps your dollars circulating in the Cape Cod community.
Support Endangered Family Farms: Family farms are part of the American tradition of self-sufficiency and serve as the basis of local communities.
Safeguard Your Family’s Health: Knowing where your food comes from allows you to make informed decisions about your food choices.
Protect the Environment: Local food doesn’t have to travel far, reducing carbon monoxide emissions and packaging materials.
Buying Local is Easy: Use our website to find a farmer, farmers’ market, farm stand, CSA, restaurant, retailer, or other local food outlet near you.
When you buy local food, you vote with your food dollar. This ensures that family farms in your community will continue to thrive and that healthy, flavorful, plentiful food will be available for future generations.
About Us
Our mission is simple: to connect people on the Cape with locally grown farm and sea products.
We do this through two approaches:
1) Public information and education about where to find locally-grown products, and why it’s a great idea to do so.
2) Collective promotion of our Partners who have made a commitment to support land and sea farms and ocean harvesters in Barnstable County.
For information on how to become a part of Buy Fresh Buy Local Cape Cod, visit our Membership page.
Buy Fresh Buy Local is a program of the Farmers Market Coalition, a national non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening farmers markets across the United States so that they can serve as community assets while providing real income opportunities for farmers. The local Cape Cod chapter was started in summer 2008 and is administered by Cape Cod Cooperative Extension. Funding and support is provided by Barnstable County, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, and the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.