What is a locavore?

In the same way that a carnivore is a being who eats meat, and a herbivore is one who eats plants, a locavore is a person who eats locally-grown and produced food.

A locavore is a person dedicated to eating food grown and produced locally and committed to learning about food grown within their food shed. Locavores recognise that there are a multitude of benefits to eat locally grown and produced food.

Why Eat Local Foods?

• Less resources (primarily fossil fuels) are expended packaging and transporting local food.
• It supports our local economy - monies remains in our local community.
• It is healthier - processing and preservatives have less importance since the food doesn't have to travel far.
• It is safer and locavores are less susceptible to foodborn illnesses.
• It is more honest - honesty in terms of the food source and the growing/producing process. It has to be! We are all neighbours.
• Fresh, local products are more nutritious and TASTE BETTER!

Eating Locally...creates less pollution and contributes less to catastrophic global climate change (global warming). When food is produced and consumed locally, fewer fossil fuels and non-renewable resources are used thereby positively impacting our health and the environment.

"Think globally, actlocally''

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Interesting facts:

"Locavore" was coined by Jessica Prentice from the San Francisco Bay Area on the occasion of World Environment Day 2005 to describe and promote the practice of eating a diet consisting of food harvested from within an area most commonly bound by a 100-mile (160 km) radius. "Localvore" is sometimes also used.

The New Oxford American Dictionary chose locavore, a person who seeks out locally produced food, as its word of the year 2007.