Buying locally is an important aspect for both consumers and producers in Nebraska. By purchasing local food/products consumers are supporting the local economy, supporting local farmers and ranchers and consuming healthier, fresher food.

Why you should buy local:

• Check out "Discover Foods" a food centered blog by Georgia Jones, Ph.D

• Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food
  • Brochure featuring 10 reasons why everyone should buy locally!
• The $10 Soultion!
  • Calculation on the impact of $10 spent on local food each week.
• BFBLN Comments & Suggestion Cards
  • Comment & Suggestion cards for BFBLN-what can we do to help make purchasing and consuming local produce eaiser?
• 14 Reasons to Buy Local Food & Products and Break the Chains provided by Organic Consumers.org
  • 14 Reasons PDF

Choose Your Plate. gov: The new way to choose the healthiest plate for each individual that includes the five areas of the original food pyramid. One way to fill your plate with healthy food is to buy locally! Local food is fresh, healthy and non-processed; start filling your plate now!

"Choose MyPlate" Update from Alice Henneman, MS, RD UNL Extension Educator

12 Reasons for Visiting a Farmers' Market (Video featuring Nebraska-grown foods):

Additional Buying Locally Resources

ATTRA (National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service)
ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service. It provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States. (ATTRA was formerly known as the "Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas" project.) - information provided by AATRA website
Visit their website and learn more about:

• Local Food Systems
• Energy Alternatives
• Beginning Farmer
• Field & Horticulture Crops
• Livestock & Pasture
• Marketing, Business & Risk Management
• Organic Farming
• Pest Management
• Soils & Compost
• Water Managment

“[BFBLN] has been a constant wealth of information by keeping the local farmer[s] informed of various events, workshops and opportunities. The program has provided a number of opportunities to help the local farmer[s] network with consumers. With [BFBLN’s] help at the Home and Garden Show in Omaha, GreenLeaf Farms launched their first ever CSA program! In addition the program has been a very successful educational tool to help consumers realize that locally grown food offers better quality and freshness. We cannot say enough for the assistance the BFBLN program has given us.”
-Tim Rogers & Joletta Hoesing
GreenLeaf Farms