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Buying locally decreases the distance food must travel. In doing so, it reduces carbon dioxide emissions from trucking and requires less packaging materials.
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Why should you buy
locally grown food? You'll get exceptional
taste and freshness, strengthen your local economy, support endangered family
farms and so much more.
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FoodRoutes welcomes you to our site. We are a national
non-profit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food    
the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that
carry it from the fields to our tables. Please check out the following
links to find out more about us.
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