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Local Food
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Consuming local food creates a virtuous circle. It supports local farmers and producers while keeping the carbon footprint and resource consumption associated with the food to a minimum. Farmers Markets and local markets have been one of the best ways to source local produce, but recently organisations in the sharing economy have been connecting local consumers with local producers. Subscribing to deliveries of baskets of organic local food is widespread in Europe, however subscribers rarely have a say in the composition of the basket which could lead to food waste. In 2010, La Ruche was founded in France and in the succeeding years has been spreading through Europe. In the United Kingdom it is known as[| The Food Assembly].

Elsewhere on the Web http://www.alternet.org/environment/10-reasons-why-you-should-eat-local http://www.strollingoftheheifers.com/locavoreindex

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