There's a growing interest in this country in organic food and locally-grown foods. Most people think the products taste better and many believe they're better for us than foods produced by conventional farming. In recent years, there's been an effort to create new markets for organic, locally-grown foods.
Supporters say there are many reasons to market local foods.
Grower Gerry Gross has hundred of seedlings ready for transplants. Once, all our foodstuffs came from the local farm. Choice was limited to the growing season, but what we lacked in variety, we made up for in flavor, freshness and cost. Today fully one third of the fresh fruits and even more of the fresh vegetables in our grocery stores come from outside the U.S., from Canada, Mexico, and countries in Latin and South America. Congressman Sherrod Brown of Lorain says the flood of imported foods constitutes a growing threat to the health of American consumers.