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Recently updated, the South Gloucestershire Local Food & Drink Directory has everything you need to help you to buy more local food!   It tells you where all the farmers’ markets are and the times they are open, gives you a list of over 55 retailers and producers in the county with the full contact details, website addresses, opening times and recent food and/or drink awards they may have received.

Seasonal food

Eating food in season makes a lot of sense – here are our ten good reasons to buying food in season:

• Better tasting
• Healthier (vital vitamins and minerals not lost in transport)
• Often cheaper
• Fun and exciting when foods come back into season
• Supports local farmers and producers
• Good for being creative – making pickles, chutneys and jams – or simply freezing or bottling when food is plentiful
• Better for the environment – reduces pollution by cutting down on the miles food travels
• Reduces packaging waste
• Connects us with the food we eat and where it is produced.
• Fresh and distinctive

The directory also gives you lists of foods and when they are in season so you can check it out for yourself so that you and your family can eat more sustainably.

You can view the directory on the Council’s main website, www.southglos.gov.uk/localfood

Please do e-mail localfood@southglos.gov.uk if you wish to be included in the next directory, or if you now of any producers or retailers we’ve missed.