Fresh Harvest provides local, organic food deliveries to the metro Atlanta area

On the positive impacts of favoring local produce:

“It’s easy to see a carrot as this thing that shows up on your plate, and that’s all it is. I mean, obviously, there’s so much more behind that. There are the growing practices; there’s the caretaking of the land. There are all the people involved in creating this sustenance that we’ve been, obviously, as humans, living off of for all of the time. Still, just it’s been manufactured now in so many different ways we don’t feel connected to it anymore. So the first, and I think, most impactful thing is for the eater – us, you and me – to really realize that there are awesome people on the other side of it,” Harrison said.

“I think it was Michael Pollan who said that ‘We vote three times a day,’ and I do believe that,” said Harrison. “And then there’s just the ecological impact. The food is not traveling as far. You have all the different efficiencies and less harmful practices that are supported by eating food that’s from right down the road. One thing we talk about a lot at Fresh Harvest is 80% of the goods that are in our baskets… come from an average of 70 miles away. So that’s a trip to Dahlonega, as opposed to driving across the country in a big old truck.”

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