Maintaining our health and the health of our planet is important to all of us. We can look after our health and our planet when we have a range of locally sourced foods such as eggs, bread, fruits and vegetables.
A lot of the time, our food environment makes it hard to get local food as it is set up to have foods coming from all locations, including faraway places. This makes it harder for us to focus on eating well to support our health and the planet.
We can check the label on our food items to see where our food comes from and choose the foods that are grown or made locally. One way to do this is to head along to the local farmers market or farm gate and buy foods in season as they are more likely to be local.
(Source Peninsula Health)