Eating locally grown foods is a growing trend across the state, and many people in the Valley are taking advantage of local food options during the holidays.

Despite being more expensive, families continue to buy these locally grown foods this Thanksgiving.

Green County resident, Jenny Morris, says it may be a new Thanksgiving tradition for her family.

She says, "I think we're very proud to serve this turkey and I think it's going to taste great, but we are also going to feel like we are doing what we can to support local farms here."

Morris says the family started "going local" during the summer, and it only made sense to stick to it on Thanksgiving Day.

She says, "We're looking around more, spending time seeing what we can get from central Virginia."

She bought her turkey from farmer Maynard Miller at Sunrise Farm in Stuarts Draft. Despite the struggling economy, he says this has been his best selling turkey year in the five years he's been selling them.

Miller says, "I've come to realize that the food that we are raising now is just a good solid food. I enjoy it."

While local foods may cost a bit more than most of the stuff you find in stores, the president of the Augusta County Farm Bureau, Charles Curry, says it's well worth it.

Curry adds, "You can talk to the person that produced it. You can have more knowledge about what you're putting on the table and you can feel comfortable and happy knowing that what you're using is nutritious."

Members of the Augusta County Farm Bureau will join other counties across the state next week in Hot Springs for a convention discussing ways to keep locally grown food profitable. Gov. Tim Kaine is scheduled to speak at the convention.