Nidderdale AONB

Buy locally produced goods!

When visiting somewhere for the first time, or for the 100th time, it is always tempting to sample local delicacies on offer. But buying locally produced products has environmental as well as gastronomic benefits:

• Shops which buy from local farms are helping to maintain the diverse farmed landscape that characterises the area
• Local food is fresh and accountable, you can trace where the meat or eggs you buy has come from
• Short distances between farm, abattoir and point of sale not only reduces stress for the animal but also minimises mileage which reduces pollution
• Supporting local shops and suppliers supports local jobs and the wider rural economy
• Local shops also have social functions, in rural areas they often offer a variety of other services other than their main purpose, allow traders to keep in contact with the elderly and infirm and provide shopping outlets for those who cannot afford or are no longer able to drive

You can buy directly from the producer or go to a farmers' market where stall holders must have grown, bred, caught, pickled, brewed or baked the goods themselves.  There are a number of farmers markets near to the AONB: