Aussies, Support Your Local Farmer
why support local?
1. Local Character & Prosperity
In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses & distinctive character have an economic advantage.
2. Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbours in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.
3. Local Decision-Making
Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.
4. Keeping Dollars in the Local Economy
Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into local economy, enriching the whole community.
5. Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.
6. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels Australia's economic innovation prosperity and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into middle class.
7.Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big box stores and strip shopping malls.
8. Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walk-able town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, automobile use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.
9. Competition
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.
10. Product Diversity
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.
finding fresh food
Start Local
Fresh food is not always going to be easy to find but once you do know who to shop from it's worth it!
But I Cant Afford to buy from the Greengrocer?
That's Okay, if you are watching your budget then probably the best place to shop would be your local supermarket but remember to always look for local Australian made and grown products, looking for Australian Owned would be ideal.
Please click on any of the links below to find your local fresh food supplier
Australian Farmers Market Association
Melbourne - www.marketfresh.com.au
Sydney - yourlocalgreengrocer.com.au
Adelaide -
Perth - www.greatgreengrocer.com
Darwin - www.greeniesrealfood.com.au
Brisbane - www.brisbanemarkets.com.au
Canberra - www.fyshwickfreshfoodmarkets.com.au
- Farmers Market Capital Region
Hobart - www.islandmarkets.com.au
Alice Springs - Fresh In the Desert (08) 8953 7230
Broome - Broome Fruit and Veggies (08) 9192 2242
Mackay - www.mifsudsfresh.com.au