Buying locally-produced food benefits you -- and your community -- in many ways.
- It helps ensure a stable source of food that’s readily available.
- Reducing the distance food travels to market reduces dependence on fossil fuels and carbon emissions (the “carbon footprint”).
- Food that’s grown locally is fresher, healthier, and tastes better. Produce is picked when it’s ripe instead of green (like fruits and vegetables grown at a distance).
- Your grocery money stays close to home, so it provides local jobs and benefits the local economy.
- By knowing the source of food, you can choose to support safe and sustainable growing practices.
 Local Food Connection
Through Cascade Pacific’s Local Food Connection program, local farmers supply food directly to schools, hospitals, restaurants and grocery stores in the Willamette Valley and central coast.
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