Did you eat a piece of fruit for breakfast? Maybe you had an egg or some chicken on your sandwich for lunch. Farmer's are asking you to take a moment to think about where that food came from.

"It's that personal relationship to know where you're food comes from how it was raised what was put into that product," said Greg Mauzy, Skyview Acres.

Greg Mauzy was born into farming. Now, he's trying to share his passion, Skyview Acres, with the rest of the Northern Shenandoah Valley.

"Ii was really surprised at how strong the buy local buy fresh movement is in Richmond. I haven't felt as much of that here in Winchester, but I think there is a lot of opportunity for farmer's producers and consumers in this area," said Sharon Hanks,
Skyview Acres.

Skyview Acres is not alone. Dozens of local farms are working together to promote buy local.

"You can get our tomatoes, sweet corn, yellow squash, zucchini, some cabbage. They do sell our canned goods. Ketchup, apple sauce, apple butter, hot pepper jelly and that's in some of the local Martin's stores," said David Lay, Linda's Mercantile.

A recent study done by the Virginia Cooperative Extension found that if every household in the Northern Shenandoah Valley spent $10 dollars a week on local produce that the area's economy would benefit by about $170 million a year.

"There's a lot of opportunity that's here for this community. If you look at examples that are going on in Seattle and Cleveland, where just a minor shift in what people are spending on local produce and really have a really big impact that can be in the millions and millions of dollars in new activity in the agriculture sector," said Economic Development Commission Director Patrick Barker.

Farmer's continue to find ways to make sure you know when something is grown locally.

"So when the customer comes to a particular farmer who is a member they would know when they see that logo that it is a product grown within our county and they would know when they purchased that product they would know that the money they are spending would be going to reinvest in their own community in support a local family farm," said David Sours, Page County Grown.

More than 100 people met in Winchester to talk about the local food economy. Some of the topics included agri-tourism .... for instance, apple picking as an outing...online farmers markets and using social media to market local farming.