local produce
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- noun
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productos locales
- Many restaurants in the area pride themselves on serving dishes made with local produce sourced from nearby farms.
- buy local produce
- fresh local produce
- local produce market
High quality local produce, Yes, that was on the list.
- High quality local produce, Yes, that was on the list.
Examples
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FreshPoint is a distributor that aggregates local produce from local farms and supplies it to Yale Dining.
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Even some of our grocery stores have a local produce section, where you can buy fruit and vegetables that come from local farms.
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Are you doing anything new and exciting with the local produce?
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We like to make it ours, using local produce.
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A mishmash of fresh, local produce.
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Good pubs and great food are in abundance in The Cotswolds; there are many farmers' markets where local produce is on offer.
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So, I'm not sure how much Dustin has told you about the business, but we sell a lot of handmade and local produce, okay?
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And then, of course, there's Walmart, which, among other things, is seeking to buy more local produce for its stores.
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We strive to use only the best local produce—when seasonally available—for our sandwiches, salads, and soups.
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During the summer, I love visiting the farmer's market to buy fresh local produce directly from the growers.
Synonyms
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1.1
Fresh fruits and vegetables often sold at markets
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1.0
Fruits and vegetables that are picked recently and not processed
How Fresh
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'food grown or produced in the local area' is directly derivable from combining 'local' (of a particular area) with 'produce' (fresh fruit and vegetables). This adjective + noun composition is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrase local produce comes from a simple image: local meaning 'nearby' and produce meaning 'things grown on farms'. Imagine a market where fruit and vegetables come from farms just down the road, and that image explains why it means 'food that is grown or produced in the local area'.