Welcome to the Bennington local foods directory
Welcome to the Bennington local foods directory. This directory lists local food providers in Bennington county and adjacent areas of Massachusetts and New York state. Our mission is to support a thriving and sustainable regional food system.
Why local foods?
Our global economy has increasingly treated food as an industrial commodity, resulting in food that depends heavily on oil in its production, fertilization, pest control, processing and transportation. Knowing where our food comes from, and how it is grown or raised, enables us to choose food from farmers who treat their animals humanely, and farmers who avoid or reduce reliance on toxic fertilizers and pesticides, hormones and antibiotics. Buying food locally helps ensure local farms will survive and continue to be part of our landscape. Local food is less dependent on oil for transportation and agriculture. Local food doesn’t need to be irradiated, waxed or genetically modified. And local food keeps the control of our food supply in the hands of local farmers, rather than a few multinational corporations focused on short-term profits.
Many of us now question the safety and sustainability of our food sources, and eating locally makes it much easier to find the answers. It also adds to our eating pleasure when we know where our food has come from and the farmer who grew it.
Farm to Plate Summit
On November 14 there will be a Bennington County summit as part of the state's Farm-to-Plate initiative. There will be a local foods dinner from 5:30–6:30PM at St. Peter’s Church, 200 Pleasant Street, Bennington, with an open meeting to follow. Click here for more information.