04/13/2026
Why You Should Eat Like a Localvore?
A localvore is someone who eats food that is grown locally. It’s that simple.
How locally? Well, that depends on how strict you want to be with it. But a good rule of thumb is to aim for consuming food that’s been grown within 100 miles of where you buy it from, or where you’re about to consume it.
It’s better for your health and it's better for the environment 💚
You’re probably wondering how a tomato that’s grown down the road might be better for you than one that’s grown elsewhere. They’re both tomatoes, right? Well, the tomato that’s grown locally has been shown to retain more nutrients. Local produce ripens naturally, and is picked when it’s ripe.
Food that has to travel is often picked before it's ripe and has to ripen in transit. That means it hasn’t spent as much time on the vine and therefore might have had less of a chance to gain more nutrients. This has even been proven scientifically as well. Researchers at Montclair State University found that the broccoli grown in season had twice the Vitamin C content compared to imported broccoli out of season.
Naturally ripened produce is also less likely to cause inflammation....even nightshades, tomatoes for instance, are more likely to cause inflammation and or allergy response when picked before naturally ripened on the vine.
The food bought from the big box store and or from dealers that purchase wholesale to resale at open markets - are often old compared to fresh picked local food.
Eating food in season is also beneficial to the circadian rhythm of the body.
Also, food grown locally often contains no (or less) pesticides. Local farmers tend to use less pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or none at all.
Since the commercialization of organic produce, there are exuberant fees involved in becoming certified. You also have to get things verified, pay a lot of money, and cross all of the t’s and dot all of the i’s.... sometimes it can take years.
Most likely your local small farmer is also using non GMO seeds.
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Do you know where your food comes from?