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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Agric Food Syst Community Dev. 2014;4(4):143–154. doi: 10.5304/jafscd.2014.044.004

Table 4. WNC Reasons for Procuring Food from Local Food Sources.

Theme Quotation
Prefer to buy locally “It's local and I like to support local. And generally they use less pesticides than big companies.”
Freshness “Just to get fresh organic stuff when it's in season, and to help support our farmers.”
Convenient/Close “It's closer…And then I don't know of another one around. We like to go to get fresh stuff.”
To socialize “Well, you know, socializing. I know pretty much everyone there. I see people I know. And they have stuff for kids. And so my kids go and they have fun. There's lots of kids there that we know. It's more like a play date than a shopping trip. We may get something, and we may not get something. We don't go there primarily to get food. I know I just said I do. I mean I do, I do. I probably five times out of six I do get something, I leave with something.”
Healthier/Organic “I get our potatoes, beans, squash, apples, oranges. I'll get…Sometimes I'll get our meat there because it's actually been slaughtered from animals that the farmers have raised around here, so they don't have all the additives…like you get from [regional supermarket].”