More from local farmer, Ken Dawson

Maple Spring Gardens, CSA Newsletter, July 4, 200

What better way to celebrate our independence that to eat locally produced food? Eating local involves less fuel consumption than eating produce trucked across the country and the hemisphere. Did you know the average distance a meal travels from farm to plate in the US is over 1500 miles? How much better to be a little less dependent on imported oil and all the entanglements inherent in its procurement! Eating local strengthens the local economy and I have to believe that makes us all a little more independent as well. Thomas Jefferson thought democracy was best achieved in a nation of small farmers. There are precious few of us left, but thanks to the great support of our local farmers markets and CSA’s, the small farm economy in this area is expanding. You are voting independence with your food dollars. Thank you.

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