Locally Grown, Good Food

Sustainable nutrition for everyone.

Bridging The Gap is committed to supporting the development of locally grown, good food for everyone in the region.

Whether you’re shopping in a grocery store or a farmers market, be certain to ask where your food was grown and packaged. Most food travels an average 1,500 miles to reach the store where you buy it. Often produce is picked too early in order to make the trip. In transit, this food loses nutrients. Worse than that, the fossil fuels used to ship your food emit carbon and other pollutants into the air…mile after mile after mile.

When you buy locally grown food you get better nutrition while you support local farms and prevent carbon and other pollutants in our air.

Don’t assume the food is local because there is a sign nearby. For the health of you and your family, as well as the quality of our air, before you buy, ask where your produce and meat were grown and processed and when and how far they were shipped to reach the place were you’re shopping.

If you have information on local food availability, quality or problems, please let us know.

If you’re a local family farm, processor or distributor and would like more information about marketing locally grown good food, please call 816-561-1087.