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We like this planet. It is a beautiful and colorful place to live. A lot of our inspiration for the socks and our color combinations comes from the beauty we see every day around us. Taking care of our local and global communities is important to us - which is why we make all our socks here in the US from recycled cotton yarns.
Earth Day 2008 is April 22nd and in honor of that we are donating $2 from every order placed through our website April 18 through April 25 to Vital Communities' Farm & Food Program.
Valley Food & Farm program is a a non-profit program fostering the relationships that make agriculture a vital part of daily community life and helping to grow the Local Food Movement in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire.
The ingredients in the typical American diet have each traveled an average of at least 1,500 miles to end up on the nightly dinner plate. Through publications, events and community partnerships the Valley Food & Farm program encourages people to buy local food and educates on the many beneficial reasons for eating local: freshness, taste, supporting your local economy and preserving open farming space by helping small family farms stay in business, rather than selling fields to developers.
We are fortunate here in the Upper Valley to have so many local food options. Buying foods grown locally has many benefits economically, environmentally and for our health. Knowing where our food comes from, and how it is grown or raised, enables us to choose food from farmers who avoid or reduce reliance on toxic fertilizers and pesticides, hormones and antibiotics, and farmers who treat their animals humanely. It also adds to our eating pleasure when we know where our food has come from and the farmer who grew it.
In this more self-contained food system, people become more connected with their local agriculture communites and transportation-related pollution is minimized.
The experience of eating locally connects people to delicious nutritious food, and through that to each other, to their local communities, farms and gardens. In eating from the same table, and developing skills of growing and cooking food, we are recovering our links to a landscape and a region. Vital Communities and their Valley Food & Farm program are dedicated to this great work.
Think globally, eat locally.
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