Locally produced and seasonal food

We try to buy a lot of food which is produced near us. For example, we buy dairy products from a dairy located in Luleå instead of a dairy in the south of Sweden. This is very good for the environment because there is less transport emission. This is because the transport is so much shorter than if the dairy products were to be transported from the south of Sweden. This makes sense, right? One week every term our school buys only locally produced products. This is a good thing but it would be even better if they bought locally produced food more often. The diary products are always locally produced and that is very very good.

Another thing we try think about is to buy vegetables and fruits according to season. For example, during winter we have a lot of snow and well, obviously, it does not grow a lot here then. So if we buy strawberries during winter (which would feel terribly wrong since most Swedes considers it as a summer thing) the strawberries would have been transported from a country far away, like Spain for example. But during summer we have strawberries everywhere and they are so delicious. It would not be an option to buy Spanish strawberries for us then. Not only because of the environmental issues but because the Swedish strawberries are fantastic!

Amanda and Denise