Ball’s Food’s Buy Fresh Buy Local Program in High Season

Ball’s Foods continues to champion the local food movement as a supporter of the Buy Fresh Buy Local network, announcing that now is the season for harvesting late summer produce and August is prime time for plump peaches, ripe summer squash, juicy tomatoes, eggplants, sweet corn and so much more.

The company works with more than 150 local growers in the Kansas City area, providing the largest selection of natural and sustainable products in Kansas City and asks area consumers to support your local food producers, local economy and your own good health by joining Balls Food Stores in supporting the Buy Fresh Buy Local network.

Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL) is the premier trademark of the local foods movement in the United States. The trademark was created as a way to identify and promote locally grown foods. Since 2002, BFBL programs have been implemented by more than 100 regional and local chapters around the country. Kansas City’s Chapter has tracked a 36 percent increase in local food sales for the Good Natured Family Farmers Cooperative selling through Balls Food Store’s in the Kansas City metro area since the chapter’s inception in the summer of 2004.

“At Hen House we are passionate in the pursuit of fresh, delicious food and support more than 150 local farms. It’s better for you, better for the environment and better for the Kansas City economy,” said David Ball, the third generation to run the family-owned business. The opening of its own central warehouse in 2001 enabled Balls Foods to purchase 70 percent of its produce direct from suppliers.