More and more people are discovering the many benefits of local food:
- Varieties of fruits and vegetables grown for their flavor rather than their durability
- Better nutrition than in processed and packaged foods
- Opportunities to know who grows your food
- Money is exchanged neighbor-to-neighbor and multiplies the local economy
- Less transport means less use of fossil fuels
- Fresh air, fun, and exercise if you grow your own!
Here at the Minnesota Project, we work to improve access to fresh, local foods for all Minnesotans. This means we help families and communities grow more of their own food through gardens and orchards in their own yards, schools, and neighborhoods. We encourage Minnesotans to buy local food at farmers’ markets and co-ops, or through community supported agriculture (CSA) farms. We work with small farmers, local distributors, chefs and caterers to put local foods onto menus and into cafeterias all around the state. We also speak out to legislators, mayors and other public officials to put fair access to healthy food on the policy agenda.
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