FoodRoutes Network

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FoodRoutes Network
Tim Schlitzer, Executive Director
tims_at_foodroutes.org
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WHY SUPPORT LOCAL?

• Strengthens local economy
• Safeguards families health
• Protects Environment
• Protects open space and farmland
• More nutritious
• Exceptional taste
• Its fun and easy

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Buy Fresh, Buy Local national network
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A Network of Partners Working to Bring Back Local
Food
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Source Compiled by R.C. Wimberley from S-276
national 2001 survey data, item 4q N819 From
Food from Our Changing World The Globalization
of Food and How Americans Feel About It, 2003
North Carolina State University
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Chapter Structure
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Local Chapters
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Chapters In Action!
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Tim Schlitzer, Executive Director tims_at_foodroutes.
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