Top 6 Ways for Shopping Local

By on June 29, 2009 in Uncategorized

6 Tips for Shopping Local

Take the pledge to shop 100% locally from Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5. With a little planning, you’ll find simple, local solutions for your every day needs.

  1. Plan your week:
    List all the things you do on a regular basis – lunch, groceries, etc. – and figure out a local alternative to the usual chain coffeehouse or mega-mart
  2. Ask friends, family, colleagues for local recommendations.
  3. Visit a Farmer’s Market to buy locally grown produce this week – or visit the Arizona Farm Bureau’s www.fillyourplate.org website to find local farmers and ranchers.
  4. Check the labels on the products you buy at local stores – and see if these items are made or grown in your state to double your impact.
  5. Tell your friends and family that You’re Going 100% Local and ask them to join you!
  6. Support a friend or neighbor who has a home-based business.  Although you are buying a product that gets shipped from a warehouse, your purchase supports the income generate to your friend!

Shopping local support the environment by reducing the carbon output of transportation and keeps your money local (in your town) – choose wisely!

The Garden Goddess

Doreen Pollack

www.down2earthgardens.com

 

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Doreen Pollack, aka The Garden Goddess, loves Mother Earth and all her creatures, but especially all plants. Several years ago, after completing the Master Gardener program in Arizona, she realized just how simple it was to do little things to tread more lightly on this great earth. Doreen loves to teach people how to create an outdoor environment that fits their needs, from a place to recharge, a place to play, or a place to grow food. She enjoys showing people how to create sustainable environments that use water and other resources wisely. Doreen continues to learn as she teaches. If she is not teaching a class she is taking one! She just completed a course as a Permaculture Designer, and upholds the Ethics of Care of the earth, Care of people and sharing of the surplus (time, money material). She is a Desert Botanical Garden Volunteer, Board member for the Phoenix Permaculture Guild where she also teaches classes, co-manages a community garden, writer, teacher, and a former Certified Life Coach. She owns Down 2 Earth Gardens, a garden consulting business in Phoenix, AZ where she lives with Annie, her Springer Spaniel and 2 cats, Sweet Pea and Mischief. You can often find her hiking in the desert
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One Response to Top 6 Ways for Shopping Local

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