Is Nova Scotia eating local?

Our food is traveling close to 8,000 km on average from farm to plate, including the delivery of inputs to the farm needed to grow the food. [...] The National Nutritious Food Basket is a list of foods that reflects the eating habits of Canadians, and meets their nutritional needs according to the Canada Food Guide. [...] As the food system becomes increasingly industrialized, and food is processed and transported in ever-larger bulk quantities, transportation becomes a smaller portion of the total energy used to get a product to the consumer. [...] Studies of energy use in the US food system show that the major energy-using phases of the system are processing and packaging (more than 20% of total energy use) or the household storage and preparation phase at 25% or 31%, depending on the source. [...] When we include the real costs in a comparison of tomato buying options for the 7 months they are not available in Nova Scotia, the least expensive and most benefit-generating option is to buy local tomatoes in bulk at the peak of the season and preserve them for home use ($32.92 per person).