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However, local food can sometimes cost more, but it’s good to know that buying in peak harvest season means that you’re getting your seasonal and local produce at its cheapest.

This type of produce is fresher, tastes better and is more nutritious. Local produce is ripened on the farm before being harvested and transported. So remember, the longer your produce spends getting to your kitchen, the less sweet they become.

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On the other hand, naturally ripened fruits and vegetables that are grown and picked in season are typically full of flavour and nutrients.įresh food really is a beautiful thing and nothing compares to the taste of fruit you’ve picked yourself. In order to meet the high demand in quantity and uniform appearance, the flavour is often overlooked, which leads to uninspiring and tasteless produce. Mass-produced fruit and vegetables are there to meet consumer demand and often suffer from a lack of flavour. Nothing tastes as good as picking your own strawberries from the local fruit farm or tasting those sweet tomatoes grown on your grandfather’s allotment. What other reasons are there to eat seasonally and to keep it local?

Buying local produce helps to support farmers in the community.

Eating seasonally and locally helps to support the local economy and the environment.

Seasonal food grown locally needs much fewer preservatives because the journey from farm to table is shorter and doesn’t require “wax” to preserve shelf life.

What’s more, unlike out of season food that is harvested early for supermarkets nationally and internationally, seasonal fruit and vegetables picked at their peak of ripeness are better tasting and full of flavour and nutrients.īut why is eating seasonal and local food important? Even though many of us like to eat blueberries all year round on our pancakes, the best time to eat them is when they can be bought from a local farmer shortly after harvest because they are often fresher and do not require transport for long distances. They’re’ more nutritious than fruits and vegetables out of season.

Seasonal and locally-harvested fruits and vegetables are fresher and often taste better. Modern transportation and the rise of post-World War II suburban and city life changed the agricultural trade and has caused us to lose touch with the basics on what to know when selecting or harvesting many fruits and vegetables. Today we take it for granted that we can eat summer berries and avocado all year round yet many of us have no idea what foods are in season and local to the area. Nowadays it’s even easier to transport food long distances than it was 100 years ago.