3 Reasons to Shop at the Farmers' Market

Freshness… The average meal travels 1,500 miles before it arrives on your plate. As a result, food is less fresh, contains fewer nutrients, and requires costly, resource-intensive transportation and packaging. Whether it is driven, or flown, an excessive amount of energy, time and handling is involved. The fresher the food, the more vital it is… full of nutrients and antioxidants… and what the hippies used to call "lifeforce". Fresh food that comes from here is fresher and tastes better too.

Connection… The ritual of Saturday mornings at the farmers' market connects you to this community, to seasonal food, to the farmers and to where the food comes from.

Sustainability… 100 years ago most of the food North Carolinians ate was locally grown. One way to invalidate our current industrialized food system is to buy local products and pay the farmer a fair price for the fresh, quality food they produce. It is a more sustainable system long-term.