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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 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!
Eating Local Guide
What Is "Local Food?"
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Local food (also regional food or food patriotism) or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place"Feenstra, G. (2002) Creating space for sustainable food systems: lessons from the field. Agriculture and Human Values. 19(2). 99-106. and is considered to be a part of the broader sustainability movement. It is part of the concept of
local purchasing and local economies, a preference to buy locally produced goods and services. Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food sometimes call themselves locavores or localvores.Roosevelt, M. (2006) The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet. Time Magazine. Sunday June 11, 2006. Accessed at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1200783,00.html on Nov 1, 2007 at 10:35 am PDT).
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.
Locavore Books
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
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Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets
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The Latest Locavore Blogs
- The Kiwi Locavore: Hello, Bottom of the Barrel
- We're almost two months into this locavore diet, and we're still eating through food we bought before the rules were put in place. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, really, just how surprised I am at the amount of food we buy. ...
- Eating Local in the Tropics: The Salad
- Tropical Locavore: This is my experiment in finding and eating foods grown and produced in South Florida. I'm a writer and a teacher and I love to cook and discover new and interesting foods. View my complete profile ...
- Cincinnati Locavore: Animal Rights Activists Enter The Backyard ...
- Got News? Cincinnati Locavore accepts no advertising, but if you have local-eating news or an event you think belongs on this blog, email Valereee! Search This Blog. Loading... Popular posts. Because scratch-cooked food is just better, ...
- La Vida Locavore:: Tales from the Larder: Cassoulet in all of its ...
- This will be a rich dish and I suggest a long walk after eating this. Vegetarian cassoulet: this is an even quicker version and a great one to boot. Use Cannelini beans (soaked overnight), 2 large eggplants, cut into big chunks, ...
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.
Local Eating Groups
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
- A new campaign urges Kansas Citians to eat local for the holidays
- Your Web site says the Eat Local Challenge is modeled after a similar campaign in Seattle. Is the movement a national trend? I do think it's a national ...
- Dark Days Challenge: Eating local forces a drive to Seattle
- By Sarah Jackson Sarah Jackson, The Herald's Eco Geek blogger, is taking part in the third annual Dark Days of Winter Eat Local Challenge, which encourages ...
- Eco Geek to eat local for 'Dark Days Challenge'
- Well, I did that a couple of weeks ago when I signed up for the third annual Dark Days of Winter Eat Local Challenge. After following Laura McCrae's ?(not ...
- COASTAL BAYS: For your Thanksgiving meal, keep things local
- Try to eat local foods for one meal each week, or incorporate local foods for part of one meal several days a week. Start with a vegetable. ...
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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- stargazer00 stargazer00 Jun 5, 2009 @ 2:47 am
- Makes sense to me. Lensrolled to my Eating Locally lens.
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- NanLT NanLT Apr 15, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
- 5* and I've lensrolled this to me "Veg in a box" lens.
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- KadabaCo KadabaCo Jan 27, 2009 @ 11:48 pm
- Great lens! 5*'s! Our neighbors want to cow-pool and we're considering it closely! Things like dairy and meat seem to be missing from our local farmers market... hmmmm!
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- SustainableSarah SustainableSarah Sep 13, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
- Yes!!! So nice to see a lens from a locavore- nice work. And I think you've covered all of the main books I recommend as well, although I haven't read coming home to eat (but now I will!). I've actually been working on my own lens on eating local, but I'll make sure to reference you. :)
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- Wbisbill Wbisbill Aug 25, 2008 @ 7:07 am
- Cool info - thanks from a fan!
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