I am looking for ideas on what products should be produced locally. Not things that your area can do sn awesome job at and export. Rather things that should be locally produced near everyone.
Feel free to define “locally” as you wish. I am thinking with 5 miles, but with 200 is also good.
Please include your reasoning. Everything from shipping costs, to ownership “punch-ability” are great.
I will kick things off in the comments.
eggs and dairy. and here local could be as big as a province/ state. international shipping of eggs sounds like a nightmare imo.
local veggies and fish also sound fantastic! none of those vaccuum packed frozen things.
broadband fiber. each city having its own public fiber offering is wishful thinking but yeah.
Pretty much all farming should be produced more locally.
50 years ago our food was much more local in the US. There were orchards and greenhouses where I grew up.
With today’s materials and electromechanical tech, greenhouses would be very effective all over the US.
Why are we shipping apples and grapes from Chile, to California, which then go on trucks all over the US? No way that’s more energy efficient than local greenhouses, and orchards.