Why Buy Local?

  • Local food tastes better
  • Local food is better for you
  • Buying local food supports local farmers
  • Buying local food builds community relationships
  • Buying local food keeps your taxes in check
  • Buying local food supports a clean environment, benefits wildlife, and preserves genetic diversity

Where Can You Buy Local food?

Top 10 Reasons
to buy Local:

  1. Local Character and Prosperity - Communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind and distinctive character have an economic advantage.
  2. Community Well-Being - Locally owned businesses build strong communities by contributing to local causes.
  3. Local Decision-Making - Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally, by people who love in the community, and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
  4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy - Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy.
  5. Jobs and Wages - Locally owned business create local jobs and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
  6. Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship fuels America;s economic innovation and prosperity.
  7. Public Benefits and Costs - Local stores make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
  8. Environmental Sustainability - Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walk-able town centers.
  9. Competition - A marketplace of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
  10. Product Diversity - A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
Learn more about the Benefits of Buying Local
by visiting High Country Local First
 
highcountrylocalfirst.org

Learn more about Locally-grown Products 
by visiting High Country Grown

highcountrygrown.org