Keep food local in the kitchen. Photo Credit: Culinary Delight Catering
Okay, so you’ve got a kitchen full of Energy Star appliances, bamboo floors, recycled glass countertops, walls splashed with milk paint (that you didn’t cry over when you spilled) and lots of natural light flooding in to help reduce your dependency on electrical bulbs. The question is, are you truly living green in your kitchen ? It’s so much more than just having the right materials in the kitchen - if you’re not making the right choices on a daily basis, then you may be short-circuiting your greenest efforts.
You are What You Eat
If you want to be more eco-friendly, start by making more conscientious choices when it comes to the food you keep in your kitchen. One of the most beneficial things you can do for the environment and your own community is to purchase locally grown produce, meats and other foods. By doing so, you're supporting not only your own community, but also small farms as an industry. So many small farms fail each year because the competition with commercial farms who supply big chain grocery stores just wipes them out. When we buy from local growers and producers, we help to sustain the small farms and businesses across America, which in turn, helps to preserve our land and natural resources. There are several buy local programs across the nation to help you locate good local sources of food.
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