{"id":695478,"date":"2026-07-16T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695478\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:01:20","slug":"jersey-should-support-economy-with-own-products-genuine-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695478\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey should support economy with own products &#8211; Genuine Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jersey should support its economy &#8220;rather than other countries&#8221; by supplying its shops with local products, according to the organisation that works to protect the provenance of home produced goods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Genuine Jersey has been running for 25 years, has more than 200 producers providing products such as art, dairy and skin care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head John Garton said people buying Genuine Jersey marked products were &#8220;supporting our economy [and] supporting people who live and work here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It recycles the local pound, it reduces our carbon footprint, it helps people to eat seasonally so then when the mark is on fresh produce, clearly it&#8217;s been grown locally and it&#8217;s in season,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as exporting globally the not-for-profit organisation wants to focus on reducing reliance on imports to feed islanders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want to start to focus now on feeding our own people, a bit more food security, farming in a regenerative way that is good soil health, good food nutrient, good gut health, good mental health,&#8221; Garton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey should support its economy &#8220;rather than other countries&#8221; by supplying its shops with local products, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-695478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}