Yes, you can eat it!

You can also take the “Buy Local” challenge, a campaign to get shoppers to eat locally grown food every day from July 23-31.

Here are a few reasons why buying and eating locally grown food is so important.

Here’s where you can find organic, locally grown food in your community.

Here are a week’s worth of menus for meals made with locally grown ingredients. Or get an entire cookbook of delicious recipes inspired by locally raised fruits and vegetables.

And here’s where you can take the challenge.

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NEED MORE RECIPES?

Check out the terrific cookbooks.

And if you haven’t done so yet, now’s the perfect time to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver’s inspiring story about the year her family spent growing their own food and buying everything they couldn’t grow from nearby farms.

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