So… why would a bunch of carrots cost $1.50 versus $3, depending on where it’s coming from? And so much of that is in relation to scale, and a lot of the growing practices take place in order to get scale up to where it actually makes things that much cheaper. “I think the first thing is just understanding the value of the food in the first place. On the challenge of valuing food honestly while keeping costs affordable: So that’s a trip to Dahlonega, as opposed to driving across the country in a big old truck.” One thing we talk about a lot at Fresh Harvest is 80% of the goods that are in our baskets… comes from an average of 70 miles away. You have all the different efficiencies and less harmful practices that then are supported by eating food that’s from right down the road. “And then there’s just the ecological impact. “I think it was Michael Pollan who said that ‘We vote three times a day,’ and I do believe that,” said Harrison.
So the first, and I think, most impactful thing is for the eater – us, you and me – to really realize that there are awesome people on the other side of it,” Harrison said. There’s all the people involved in creating this sustenance that we’ve been, obviously, as humans, living off of for all of time, but just it’s been manufactured now in so many different ways we don’t feel connected to it anymore. There’s the growing practices there’s the caretaking of the land.
I mean, obviously, there’s so much more behind that. “It’s easy to just see a carrot as this thing that shows up on your plate, and that’s all it is. On the positive impacts of favoring local produce:
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