Home-grown, native, seasonal... These buzz words are big in the food industry. But why should you care about whether an apple is local -- in picked from a farm up the road or grown in the United States? One person who believes strongly that local makes a big difference is contributor Dave Kozlowski of Pinehold Gardens in Oak Creek. He says that local is a term that "means something to everybody, and it means something different oftentimes to everybody." The standard definition of local is any product bought within a 100-mile radius of where it was made or harvested, according to Kozlowski, but he admits that definition can be limiting. "You're just going to have to decide for yourselves and I actually think that works fine. That's really the heart and soul of the free market system - people are going to decide for themselves what they think is local," he says. If you consider any products or produce made in the state of Wisconsin to be local, Kozlowski says you're in luck. "We're
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