There are lots of perks to eating locally produced food. Locally produced food has a smaller carbon footprint because of the transportation. The food is being transported smaller distances which means that less pollution is being created. Normally local food is produced on small farms which are more prone to adopt environmentally friendly practices. Local foods also keep nutrient cycling at the local level. This means that the nutrients produced stay in that place. Eating local also has a social and economic impact. Often local food costs less that conventionally produced food and the money spent on that food stays in the community. Also locally produced food can help promote a healthy lifestyle!

I also agree with what you say about how locally grown food is better than food grown from far away.  Even though it might take a while to have locally grown fruit or home grown fruit in the end it lowers the carbon footprint by a lot.  On the website, "think progress" I read that the importation of fruits and other foods on airplanes and trucks the CO2  count is more than 70,000 tons.  Also to package all of the foods, there needs to be a lot of plastic to keep the food together.  If we had local grown food then there would be a cut back on plastic and there would not be a big cut down of CO2 that is caused by gasoline and plastic.  Also locally grown food is a lot healthier and fresher which is a lot better for your body.  All together having locally grown food is healthier and better for the environment.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/1 … ocal-food/