Locavores are people who choose to abstain from outsourced supermarket foods in favor of those grown locally. Over the past few years, locavorism has become a widespread movement. With a keen eye to nutrition and sustainability, this trend is encouraging communities all over the world to become more active in deciding what they eat. The locavore movement highlights how large-market food lacks nutrition, elevates emissions, and exploits labor, by explaining how local foods have longer to ripen, use less energy, and double communal income.
A key factor to the nutrition of food is ripeness. Locally produced foods come fresh from the farm to your hand, allowing for maximum ripeness, whereas supermarket foods have to endure