Why Eat Local?

Local food is about the future: 

By supporting local Placer County farmers today, you can help ensure that there will be farms in your community tomorrow, and that future generations will have access to nourishing, flavorful, and abundant food.

Local food builds community:

When you buy direct from the farmer, you are re-establishing a time-honored connection.  When you visit local farms & ranches, you gain insight into the seasons, the weather, and the miracle of raising food.  In many cases, it gives you access to a farm where your children and grandchildren can go to learn about nature and agriculture.
                                                                                                                                                  Adapted from Growing for Market
Learn more:

Visit UC Cooperative Extension's 'Eat Local and Prosper' and find out more information about eating locally produced foods:
10 Reasons to eat local
How to eat local 
What is Produced Here? 
Signature Crops

Visit PlacerAgGuide.com  and purchase locally produced food and other agricultural products directly from the farm, at certified farmers’ markets, or independent food markets. PlacerAgGuide.com will feature an interactive map to help you easily locate local products.

Visit Sierra Foothills Meat Buying Club for purchasing local, grass fed meat and eggs.  The producers are local family-owned operations.  Livestock are raised on Sierra Foothill's range and pasture and produced with no hormones or antibiotics.

Visit PlacerGROWN for a guide to Placer County producers,on-farm sales, u-pick, as well as: 
Farmers' market schedules
What's in season
Recipes using local ingredients
Agricultural events 

   Photograph by Wayde Carroll

Placer County Christmas Trees    Buy a fresh, locally grown, Christmas Tree!      click here for a printable guide to Placer County   Christmas Tree Farms