Are you reducing food miles?

Question

With soaring fuel prices in the UK adding to the price of just about everything, are you trying to reduce "food miles?"

Obviously we can't get home grown bananas but we can get local root vegetables and some fruits.

Are you buying seasonal fruit and veg grown in the UK, preferably in the local area? Local meat? Do you visit the local farm shop or farmers' market?

Answer 1

I am because this is a small rural town in Mexico

and so most of the town is

This is about to change

A large plaza is being build ,and all of their products come from afar

And the competitive prices with better quality ,in a cleaner and better atmosphere will convince the whole town to take a giant ecological step back wards by next year.

Making the local ,fish ,veg & Meat market obsolete

Answer 2

Yes to veg as we have a local farm deliver their own organic veg box.  I try to with fruit, although I prefer grapes & bananas so that's not very good on the food miles.  I do have a grape vine growing in the garden but the grapes aren't good enough to eat.

I don't buy locally produced meat yet, but try to buy British.  Our farmers' market is only once a month at the moment, and I usually forget.

Answer 3

yes I try and buy food as close to home as possible. I try and buy fruit and veg from local markets but sometimes the quality is dubious in Tooting!

Answer 4

i'd love to, but its just not practical and too much effort.  Supermarkets are trying to make it easier, they need to work harder for us.

Answer 5

Yes, also look to buy sustainable fish stocks.

Answer 6

Yes to all.Plus living by the coast i go to local fish market.

Answer 7

I live in a town that still has local shops no big supermarkets the greengrocers buys as much local products as they can an I know its fresh also because I walk to the shops my carbon footprints are small but I must amit that I like bananas and other foods but if we didn't buy food from aboard would they have jobs

Answer 8

I would love to but live a way from the local town, so it is easier and cheaper (fuel) to get everything from the local supermarket.

I would love to be able to nip to the market to purchase fruit and veg.

I do use things from a friends allotment though, and would love to grow my own.

Maybe when I have time I'll try.