Eating Local yield to Save Money and the Environment

With environmental concerns constantly mounting, campaigners are calling on the public to make more and more changes to their lifestyle.

One recommendation is to buy locally produced food. Shipping fruit, vegetables or meat from varied corners of the world adds air miles to your conscience and digits to your bill.

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To highlight this issue, Scottish journalist Stephen Jardine has this year begun a campaign promoting local food, called Eating for Scotland. On a holiday in France, he was dismayed to see Scottish seafood being delivered on the continent whilst back home he found it difficult to find fish or meat from his own country in supermarkets.

Because of this, he set about using his high profile in the media to encourage population to join him in a crusade to eat only food produced in Scotland from Burns Night (25 January) to St Andrew's Day (30 November). Jardine in case,granted regular updates in a national newspaper column and appearances on Scottish Television's topical magazine programme, 'The Five Thirty Show'. Scottish First minister Alex Salmond and Secretary of Rural Affairs and Environment Richard Lochhead have given their sustain to the campaign and both joined in the diet for a short time.

Having a locally produced diet need not be more expensive. Farmers' markets and farm shops allow population to sell the yield they grow and with minute or no delivery expenses, and with no middlemen seeing for a share of the profits, prices can often be lower. Some farms also run what they call 'box schemes' where they will furnish a box full of seasonal goods and deliver it to your home on a regular basis.

Another bonus of shopping with smaller businesses - particularly family run fellowships - is that they often have friendlier staff and workers. They appreciate how foremost their customers are and often furnish a more helpful service while seeing to please you as best they can. Large corporations employ workers with no other link to the enterprise and whilst they employ truly good workers few will possess the same level of love for their job as man who has started their own business, or man who works for a enterprise that has been in their family for generations.

Nowadays, most businesses, even the smaller ones, now have websites and doing a local search online is a great way to find nearby places to buy food. It will also help give you a feel of the enterprise before you agree to anything and you can see what services they offer, and maybe even what crops they sell.

There are of procedure drawbacks to eating only local produce. Jardine says that his love of bananas has at times tested his rule but so far he is yet to crack. His crusade of a Scottish banana plantation continues in vain.

Eating Local yield to Save Money and the Environment

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