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I dont think many people see the connection between buying locally and improving the local economy. Its about helping your neighbor, the guy down the street, the guy ten cities over, etc. by doing that youre keeping your money local and chances are it'll come back to you and those you know. by making sure small businesses, including small farmers, youre helping individuals, not large companies and that'll bring about more local jobs and hopefully increase wages. Not only that, but youre helping the environment by not using oil to transfer these goods halfway across the world. Many times local farmers care more for their customers and the quality of their business and the products they provide that the huge feedlots, therefor many times offer a much better quality product. why not spend locally to keep dollars local even if it sometimes costs more? that money gets circulated in your area MANY more times in your area instead of going out of state and many times out of the country.

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