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Natural Foods Cooking & Locally Grown Organic Produce – exploring farmers markets, gardening, learnng how to cook with natural foods! Buying food that’s grown on local farms minimizes transportation-related emissions. It also keeps local farmers in business and acting as stewards of our land. Getting into the urban farming movement, will bring the greatest sustainability to your food and livelihood.
Local Harvest will direct you to farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Eating locally eliminates a lot of pollution and packaging going into the environment from unnecessarily transporting produce that comes from Mexico or California, and you help strengthen our local economic infrastructure and conserve our land and landscape. Local farmers are also more likely to put a lot of care into protecting their land with organic growing practices because their families actually live on the land. Within the local farm movement is also a great concern for protecting heirloom seeds. Once you've seen and then tasted a fruit or vegetable grown in season, not genetically modified, and picked just the day before, you'll know that taste and appearance alone are reason to support local farmers.
Most important Fruits & Vegetables to buy organic to avoid excessive pesticide residue: Apples, Bell Peppers, Celery Cherries, Imported Grapes, Nectarines, Peaches, Pears, Potatoes, Raspberries, Spinach, Strawberries
Tips for Affording Organic Foods
Guide to Eating Sustainable Seafood
Natural Food Cooking Class Schedule
Learn how to Cook Natural Foods.
*Contact: Juliette Tahar
healthylivinginc@earthlink.net (202) 497-5269
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