Many farmers have opened their doors or set up stalls to offer fresh, local products direct to customers. Discover here the fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, cakes, preserves, and local specialities available from hundreds of farm shops, Pick-Your-Own farms, stalls at farmers' markets, and deliveries direct to your home.
Buying direct allows farmers and producers to keep to less intensive methods of growing, harvesting and rearing than the high volumes demand in the mainline food chains. You can also get great local, regional and seasonal products from farm retailers in your area.
What does this mean for you? It means you get the very freshest produce sold directly to you on the farm or by the producers themselves: 'farm-direct sales' means just that! This helps the producers by providing an income that's not tied to the profits or whims of the supermarkets, it reinvests the money that you spend back into your local economy and the rural economy at large. It provides you with more choice and an alternative to the supermarkets, and lets not forget the freshest, tastiest food money can buy!
FARMA members have been the early adopters of farm-direct sales and instrumental in bringing about the local foods movement which has become more and more visible in newspapers, magazines and TV these days. FARMA (the National Farmers' Retail & Markets Association) represents over 500 farm retailers/producers as well as 250 farmers' market locations.
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