The Malta Farm Map – an initiative aiming to promote and support local farmers sell their local fruits and vegetables, has been launched today by Friends of the Earth Malta (FoEM).

FoEM said that it has published this free farm map focusing on local farms and producers who wish to retail their products directly to the consumers without including any third party for the sale-purchase of products in Malta and Gozo.

The NGO said this action is part of its mission to preserve permanently local farmland and communicate with the public about the importance of eating local,

Martin Galea De Giovanni, FoEM Director said, “this free service aims to connect farmers and customers directly in this time of crisis. At Friends of the Earth Malta we receive a lot of requests from our members asking us about which farmers sell their local produce directly.”

He added that, “through this map we want to consolidate a direct sales platform for agriculture producers and customers to know how and where to purchase products and services from local farms. In thus doing, our motivation is to bridge the distance between small and local producers and the people.”

“Farmers put a lot of work and passion into growing food, and we want citizens to get a glimpse of that. Right now people want to support local farmers but are finding it hard to purchase from them, and we hope this list will be a helpful bridge,” explained Nastia Caruana Finkel, project coordinator at FoEM.

FoEM said it is now urging people to login to www.foemalta.org/maltafarmmap in order to locate their nearest friendly farmer and buy their fresh local produce directly from them. In that way they will be supporting the local farming community which had already been struggling even before the current Covid-19 crisis.

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