Here's where you can buy strawberries at P76 per pack and support sustainable, local farmers while at it

There are plenty good reasons for you to buy your provisions from local farmers. Apart from a lower carbon footprint, which is always good for the environment, you also get your goods fresh as well as getting to support local farms. 

Enter The Locale Farm, a group of eight farmers from Madaymen Benguet, with presence online. They sell Benguet strawberries in various forms at pretty prices. 

You can buy a pack of small and medium-sized strawberries for as low as P76 per pack (200g), while large-sized strawberries go at P90 per pack (200g).

They even offer a box of assorted sized strawberries at P740 (6 packs of 250g each) and a box of large-sized strawberries at P839 (6 packs of 250g each).

What sets The Locale Farm apart is that there are zero pesticides used, and they have low nitrate content.

Iloisa Romaraog, President of The Locale Farm, is proud to say their farmers utilize good agricultural practices, so they don't harm the environment or the people who live in the area where they farm.

Six of the eight farmers are female, because according to Romaraog, women are usually more interested in food processing, or being able to turn the produce into various food products, helping reduce food waste.

Apart from fresh strawberries, The Locale Farm offers food products, like strawberry tea and strawberry habanero sauce, which Romaraog said are their bestsellers, along with the strawberries.

Goods from farmers of The Locale Farm can be bought in the website

As for the delivery, you can get products anywhere in NCR for a delivery fee of as low as P99! Romaraog says the delivery fee may increase if you order heavy vegetables, from Session Groceries but if it's just strawberries, it's likely to only cost P99 for delivery.

Aside from that, they offer a money-back guarantee in certain situations. Customers have 24 hours from the date of delivery to request a refund.

Soon, you may also find their products in the groceries in Metro Manila and Cordillera, as well as abroad, namely in the Middle East. They're working with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to make all that happen, and the availability in local groceries may come as soon as February 2023.

Romaraog advises to keep the strawberries refrigerated, and they may last up to two weeks. That's how fresh you get them, when you buy local.

While talking with GMA News Online, Romaraog shared a story of a farmer, who has been farming for two long decades but only joined the association in 2019. After saving money for two years, he was able to build a house in 2021. A year later, in 2022, the farmer moved in with his wife and four kids, who are in elementary school and below.

If you need another compelling reason to go local, let this be it. — LA, GMA Integrated News