How often do you buy locally produced meat, vegetables and dairy products? Help

Did you know:

Buying local food will generally result in a lower footprint. For example, every tonne of strawberries we fly into the UK from north Africa or the Middle East releases more than four and a half tonnes of CO2, whereas the same amount of locally grown, seasonal, strawbs will only release 17kg - one-three-hundredth the amount!

Buying more locally grown food can reduce your food footprint by about 10%.

However, it is vitally important that we don’t ignore the value of fairly traded products as a means of income for producers in developing countries. Therefore when you do buy produce from overseas try to buy from fairly traded sources.