Results: Do you take part in buying locally-sourced food?
1.
1.
Where do you normally buy locally-sourced foods?
Farmer's Market
34%
•
389 votes
Health Food Store (eg Whole Foods, Trader Joes)
6%
•
73 votes
A "Regular" Grocery Store that supplies it
26%
•
290 votes
A Local Restaurant
4%
•
43 votes
Grown By Yourself/Neighbor
8%
•
94 votes
I Don't Buy these items
20%
•
225 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
•
15 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.53% | 6 | |
| all diifferent places | 0.09% | 1 |
| local market | 0.09% | 1 |
| all of the above, and sales at actual farms. | 0.09% | 1 |
| i'd love to if stores in my area carried local. i'd prefer it for sure, but only if it was also organic! | 0.09% | 1 |
| the next nearest town to me is 100 miles away and there is virtually no place to grow veg here | 0.09% | 1 |
| need to check off multiple options... | 0.09% | 1 |
| local fruit and vegetable stands | 0.09% | 1 |
| i | 0.09% | 1 |
| walmart | 0.09% | 1 |
2.
2.
Regardless if you buy local or not, what is a good reason to do so? Supports the Local Economy
59%
•
662 votes
Cheapest way to get Organic Food
28%
•
314 votes
Environmentally Friendly
33%
•
378 votes
Costs Less than other foods
25%
•
282 votes
I do not think there are any benefits to buying locally-sourced foods
15%
•
167 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
•
19 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.49% | 9 | |
| increases health | 0.05% | 1 |
| tasty | 0.05% | 1 |
| healthier | 0.05% | 1 |
| none | 0.05% | 1 |
| tastes better | 0.05% | 1 |
| healthier way to eat | 0.05% | 1 |
| na | 0.05% | 1 |
| fresher | 0.05% | 1 |
| tastes alot better | 0.05% | 1 |
| home grown | 0.05% | 1 |
3.
3.
What do you think of the quality of locally-sourced foods? Better than others
48%
•
547 votes
About the Same
30%
•
336 votes
Worse than others
6%
•
64 votes
I do not buy locally-sourced foods
16%
•
182 votes
4.
4.
How long ago did you last buy any food that was sourced locally? Within the last Two Weeks
34%
•
386 votes
Within the last Month
19%
•
210 votes
Within the last Half Year or so
18%
•
205 votes
More than a Year ago
10%
•
118 votes
I do not buy locally-sourced foods
19%
•
210 votes
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