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eating locally
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eating locally

written by Jana June 15, 2007

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For the past few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of research on eating locally, supporting family farms that grow produce and raise livestock on a small scale. In the process I’ve found a few helpful websites:

—Local Harvest: You can search for Community Supported Agriculture programs for your region

–Find a Community Garden near you and grow your own organic food!

–website of the 100 mile Diet, moderated by the authors of Plenty.

–Barbara Kingsolver’s new book about eating locally: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

–For those who are interested in taking on the challenge to eat locally, I highly recommend subscribing to the “Eat Local Challenge” blog.

–For you who live near me (in SoCal), here are some links for some fabulous local foods: Winchester cheese (their super-aged Gouda is to-die-for), Temecula olive oil, and South Coast Farms (which is the best local CSA source, IMO)

My biggest problem in trying to source all of our family’s food locally is wheat. I know that wheat is grown within 100 miles of our home, but I can’t find any place to purchase the wheat. Does anyone have any ideas for me on how to do this??

UPDATE: The National Center for Home Food Preservation (for canning, pickling, etc all of that locally grown good-ness)

Also, see JohnH’s writeup of our local eating adventure last Sunday.

UPDATE #2: A list of OC Certified Farmers Markets with tons of seasonal recipes(!) included

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CV Rick June 16, 2007 - 2:30 am

How timely is that? I am right in the middle of reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and am going to increase my own support of locally grown produce as well.

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john.white June 16, 2007 - 3:23 pm

cvr: don’t waste your time, I’ve been pimping that book to jana for at least a year now. still no movement on it. *grin*

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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