Local produce does a body good... the economy, too

Why go to the Royal Oak Farmer's Market? (Or any farmer's market for that matter?) Well, it'll do your body some good, as well as the economy.

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Some of the nutrients in some produce diminish after it is picked. Shopping at The Farmers Market shortens the time between picking and eating so the food has more of what your body needs. And, locally grown produce almost always tastes better.

Shopping at The Farmers Market also keeps money circulating locally. Says Dr. Susan Smalley, director of the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University: "If you spend a dollar ... with a local farmer, he or she will invest some of that dollar back into the farming operation - helping to pay the mortgage, perhaps at a local bank, paying local people who work on the farm, purchasing gas for the tractor locally, etc. Some of your dollar will hopefully be profit - profit that provides the farm family with its income and keeps the land in farming. If you spend a dollar on food in the supermarket, only about 20 cents on average makes it back to the farmer."

Read the entire article here.