Buy Local

If ever there was a time to consider purchasing locally grown and sourced products, this is it. Prices on most goods and services have skyrocketed, driven in large part by soaring fuel prices and uncertainty about where the country's headed. As an example, the price of wheat has soared 100% in the past six months!

Significantly more money recirculates in Lancaster when we buy from locally owned, rather than nationally owned, businesses. More money stays in the community because locally owned businesses purchase from other local businesses, service providers, and farms. Purchasing locally helps grow other Lancaster businesses as well as Lancaster's tax base.

Food is a great place to start, especially here in Lancaster where it's fairly easy to buy locally sourced items. With our county's agricultural bounty, we have many opportunities to buy locally grown and produced grains, dairy, meats, fruits and vegetables. By doing so, we'll be helping preserve the environment, we'll increase the nutritional value of what we eat (food loses "the good stuff" the longer it's out of the ground) and we'll be strengthening Lancaster by investing our food dollar close to home. Only twenty cents of every dollar, when buying at a large supermarket, go to the grower. Eighty cents go to various middlemen. Cut them out of the picture, buy your food directly from your local farmer or farmer's market and keep 100% of your hard earned money in Lancaster.

Sounds like an easy way to make a big difference!