Locavores LOVE Eating Locally!
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How would you feel eating only foods from within 100 miles of your home?
Coined by a Bay Area group, the term "locavore" refers to people who try to only eat food grown, processed and produced within a 100 mile radius of where they live.
Whether you call yourself a locavore or say that you are on the 100 Mile Diet, the concept of truly eating locally is starting to catch interest. Already gone organic but wish you could do more? You might want to give this concept a try! With just a few simple changes you can support local farmers and the economy near where you live, cut down on oil use and CO2 emissions, reduce the dominance of big agriculture and eat some really health and awesome food.
Whether you call yourself a locavore or say that you are on the 100 Mile Diet, the concept of truly eating locally is starting to catch interest. Already gone organic but wish you could do more? You might want to give this concept a try! With just a few simple changes you can support local farmers and the economy near where you live, cut down on oil use and CO2 emissions, reduce the dominance of big agriculture and eat some really health and awesome food.
Learn More About Eating Locally
articles about locavorism and eating locally
Did you know that most food has to travel about 1,500 from production location to consumer? That's a lot of fuel consumed to move it and a fair amount of pollution along the way. Being a locavore can help lessen dependency on fossil fuels and cut down on that pollution. By supporting regional food production, many more varieties of fruits and vegetables are preserved and cultivated, which contributes towards saving the planet's biodiversity too.
- 'Locavores' Dine on Regional Chow -
- Local, sustainable eating is a noble cause. As advocates like Alice Waters and Michael Pollan have labored to make clear, it's good for both eater and eaten, not to mention the economy and the planet. The 100-mile diet is perhaps the quickest and cleverest way to build awareness of food miles, and the pleasures and challenges of local "foodsheds."
- The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet | TIME
- If you live in the town of Athens in southeastern Ohio, there are politically correct reasons not to eat a California strawberry. Think of the pollution and the global warming caused by its transport....
- Locavores and 100 Mile Dieters: Sustainable, organic, local, ethical food movement
- Eating locally is gaining converts and making me crazy. Why do we take a good idea and push it to illogical extremes? Eat only from a 100 mile radius? Seriously?
- ENVIRONMENT IN FOCUS / Diet for a sustainable planet / The challenge: Eat locally for a month (You can start practicing now)
- Diet for a sustainable planet, The challenge: Eat locally for a month (You can start practicing now) Olivia Wu, Chronicle Staff Writer, Wednesday, June 1, 2005
- 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
- When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically traveled at least 1,500 miles from farm to plate.
- Living on the 100-Mile Diet :: Life :: thetyee.ca
- thetyee.ca, British Columbia's online source for News, Views, and Culture, published weekdays.
- Time to Become a "Locavore"
- Time to Become a "Locavore" Published on Monday, October 9, 2006 by the Seattle Times (Washington)
- How to Eat Like a Locavore | Food & Wine
- A new group of cooks is taking the "eat local" dictum to an extreme: They'll only buy ingredients produced within a 100-mile radius.
- How to Be a Locavore / The Pennywise Eat Local Challenge, April 23-29
- Read how a Bay Area locavore challenge was for three households.
- Food Trends: Don't Just Eat Organic, Eat Local
- For a growing number of food purists, eating organic is no longer enough. These days, eating locally grown food is just as important.
- Become a locavore: Top reasons for eating locally grown food
- One key strategy to eating nutritionally sound produce is to make sure it is grown locally. When you shop at a farmer's market or pick-your-own farm, you're rewarded by some of the best-tasting fruits and vegetables Mother Nature has to offer.
Seasonal Eating
One tip for helping to become a locavore is to learn to eat seasonally. This means only eating food when it is fresh and in season, and giving it up for those times of the year when it's not locally available.
Joining a local CSA or organic vegetable service is a great way to start switching over to seasonal eating.
Locavore Books
Here are some great books from folks who've actually put the concept of eating locally to the test! There are some great stories here as well as a lot of very helpful advice for if you decide to make this a part of your lifestyle.
The Latest Locavore Blogs
Read what some Locavores themselves have to say about local eating!
- Whatcom Locavore: Resilient gardening keeps you growing in good times and bad
- Deppe begins by talking about the pleasures of gardening and eating fine food you've grown yourself. "However," she says, "there were plenty of times when my gardening fell apart or overwhelmed me instead of sustaining me.
- A Hot Chocolate Tour of New York. What Are The Top Three?
- The Accidental Locavore reviews Choco Bolo, Eataly and City Bakery, looking for the best hot chocolate in New York City. Who won? The Accidental Locavore decided to metaphorically take lemons & make lemonade today. Out of the blue, the afternoon was ...
- East Hills restaurant's dessert gets national nod
- ... restaurant's farm-to-table product, saying, "one of the most impressively locavore-leaning pastry programs we found was in Michigan's second most-populous city, of all places." "Locavore" means someone who is interested in eating locally-produced food.
- Locavore movement having an impact on farmers markets, CSAs
- While I was indoors basking in front of the fireplace during the beautiful snowstorms last week, I took the opportunity to explore how the local eating (locavore) movement is evolving around the country. I learned some interesting things about how food ...
Join The Cow Pool!
If you want to have fresh milk and meat, consider buying into partial ownership of a cow at a local farm. This practice is called "cow pooling" and can also be done with pigs. Check to see if any organic farms in your area offer this great option.
The Farmer's Market
One of the best ways to connect with locally-grown produce and foods is to find any Farmer's Markets in your area. These let local farmers sell direct to the public without any middle-men. Often produce is picked the day of market and is very ecomonical. Produce will vary with only what is "in season" being offered for sale so you may find some of your eating habits changing as you only eat what is fresh-picked and not mass-produced in another country.
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Local Eating Groups
These organizations and websites are working to promote local eating in their regional areas.
Please email me if you have a group in your area that I don't have listed here!
Please email me if you have a group in your area that I don't have listed here!
- Locavores
- Join the Locavores in a celebration of our local food cornucopia -- eat locally this August! - SF/Bay Area
- Welcome to Eat Local
- Eat Local is a new food concept offering chef-prepared organic and wholesome meals, gourmet in preparation and frozen for convenience.
- 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
- When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically traveled at least 1,500 miles from farm to plate.
- www.eatlocalchallenge.com
- www.eatlocalchallenge.com is a group blog on local eating
- Do the 100 mile diet on 43 Things
- Join other people who want to do the 100 mile diet
- Local food | Soil Association producer services
- Organic food, organic farming: Soil Association is campaigning for organic food, organic farming and sustainable forestry.
- Regional Food Online
- Local eating in Australia
- The Food Project: Blast Youth Initiative
- Eat In, Act Out Week is an annual event to encourage communities to eat locally and think critically about their food choices
- Upper Valley Localvores
- Upper Valley Localvores is a unincorporated community group formed to support and celebrate eating food from our region: New Hampshire and Vermont, specifically along the Connecticut River.
- MAD RIVER VALLEY Localvore Project
- Eat Locally - Spice Globally!
- Food and Faith: How to be a locavore
- Thirteen plant foods can be grown successfully anywhere in the continental United States. These can be eaten locally and in season without needing to import them from afar.
- How To Be a Yelp Locavore - Washington DC
- If challenged to consume only food grown or harvested within 100 miles of your 'hood, could you do it? Should you do it? What would compel you even to try and be a locavore - concern for the environment, support of local farmers, the promise of fresher food or possible protection from bioterrorism?
Start Your Own Garden!
Growing your own vegetables can be a rewarding and cost-effective way of getting local and organic produce. Learn more about container and backyard gardening.
Join The Eat Local Challenges
news articles on local eating
From July through October, different locavore groups stage "Eat Local Challenges" where people are invited to give local eating a try. The host months are most often the peak of the local harvest season, when the most produce and foods can be gotten more easily. Why not give it a try?
- Local mom Stephanie Bright is a finalist in the 45th annual Pillsbury Bake-Off ...
- ... want to ?eat out every single meal.? A friend in the same boat decided to challenge herself by trying one new recipe every week. It sounded like a good idea. That's how Bright fell in love with cooking, and she's still keeping up the challenge.
- Local food club aims to bridge the winter gap
- ... residents and those from afar to eat locally grown, organic food year-round. "It's easy for a family to source 60 per cent or more of their produce from local, organic farmers in the summer," McLeod said. "But in the winter it is a real challenge.
- We'll eat guinea pig, dolphin & rattlesnake on holiday - but not in France
- Local customs are also well known for catching people out ? one diner quickly learnt not to cause offence by eating with his left hand in Morocco. With dining out comes the challenge of ordering from the menu. Whilst some favour picture menus, ...
- Celebrity chef challenges Hamilton students
- Ridgeway parent Patty Scott has been working with local businesses to sponsor Shaw's visits and to purchase water bottles for each child to keep on their desk with the challenge pledge printed on it: ?I eat right to keep my body tight.
Locavore Message Board
Let's hear about your local eating efforts and resources! (all comments must be approved and will have HTML stripped out of them)
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Lenskeeper
Jan 18, 2012 @ 1:36 pm | delete
- I'd like to eat more local foods. It would be a challenge for me since I eat frozen stuff a lot, but I can always accent that with local fruits and veggies at the very least!
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jimmyworldstar
Jan 17, 2012 @ 2:40 pm | delete
- I think it's a good idea, especially if you're for supporting local businesses and keeping more money within the community. If you're trying to help the environment, it's good to for reducing the amount of fossil fuels used.
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rhiannonfl1
Jan 15, 2012 @ 10:55 am | delete
- Nice lens - very informative. I'm just starting to learn more about eating locally. Love my green market shopping! Nothing better that getting sweet juicy strawberries that were picked that morning :)
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Graceonline
Jun 8, 2011 @ 2:50 pm | delete
- Wonderful lens! Thank you for all the useful information and links. I've been working on eating local and organic for several years, though I'm not a purist. I buy fair trade, organic tea, coffee and chocolate, for example, most of which are impossible to obtain locally. Plus, it is important to me to support the worldwide organic movement, so if I have to choose between conventionally grown local produce and shipped-in organic, I talk to the farmer or seller about how the local was grown before making a choice. If the food was grown using organic or better standards and the farmer is unable to pay for the certification, AND IF I trust the farmer, I'll still buy local. Btw, SF Bay Area chef and author Jessica Prentice takes credit for coining the word locavore (see http://blog.oup.com/2007/11/prentice/), but you are right, she is a founding member of the local locavore group.
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mukeshdaji
Jun 6, 2011 @ 8:02 pm | delete
- Great information, awareness, education and advice, kudos to a great lens!
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cuteordeath
Apr 27, 2011 @ 1:01 am | delete
- I do wish I could garden (in my yard-less apartment -_-), but I get a delivery of organic local veggies every month. ^^ It's wonderful! I also love going to the farmer's market. Of course, I am pretty lucky to live nearby a huge agriculture hub. :D
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purplelady
Nov 16, 2010 @ 3:37 pm | delete
- I just found your lens; love the concept. I have lens rolled your lens to my Driftless Market lens.
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Simon
Dec 1, 2009 @ 9:13 pm | delete
- You can search for local produce on:
www.locavore365.org
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stargazer00
Jun 5, 2009 @ 2:47 am | delete
- Makes sense to me. Lensrolled to my Eating Locally lens.
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NanLT
Apr 15, 2009 @ 5:18 pm | delete
- 5* and I've lensrolled this to me "Veg in a box" lens.
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