Eat Local Challenges, 100 Mile Diets and Locavores
Over in this thread shine_on mentioned the idea of a region wide "Eat Local Challenge." Earlier today I spoke to SustainaBundy's resident chef, Carol Sweeney, about the possibility of providing a few recipes for all-local dishes that we can print in the guide. I think we could have a very successful Eat Local Challenge right here in Bundy!
To arm us with information, I thought I'd provide some more links to people who've done it before. It's known by two names most commonly: the 100 Mile Diet, from the book by James MacKinnon and Alisa Smith, also the locavore movement - you have your herbivores, carnivores, omnivores and locavores!
Australian journalist Richard Cornish wrote a very illuminating article about his experiences being a locavore.
My co-correspondent on Global Public Media, Jason Bradford, is coordinator for Willits Economic Localization in California - he lived as a locavore for the entire month of October 2006 and blogged about it at relocalize.net. You can read his experiences (in reverse chronological order) here.
Albany, New York had 76 people participating in their 2nd annual 100 Mile Diet challenge.
Here are a bunch of shows and articles about eating locally:
Deconstructing Dinner: The Eat Local Challenge
Deconstructing Dinner: 100-Mile Diet / Local Food Strategies
Author & Locavore Jessica Prentice on "The Reality Report" with Jason Bradford
The 100 Mile Diet
How to Eat Like a Locavore
Locavores: Loco or Logical?
I think once the guide comes out this'd be a great project for a few SustainaBundy members to take on! "Register your interest" by replying, and we'll revisit this when the guide comes out - unless someone wants to start now!!
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November 13th, 2007
Re: Eat Local Challenges, 100 Mile Diets and Locavores
I hereby register my interest in participating in the Eat Local/Locavore Challenge and intend to drag along as many as I can!!
Jacqui
November 8th, 2007
Yet another Locavore link
This was passed to me yesterday and looked apropos:
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/344/index.html
Cheers,
Jim Zack
Sustainable Saratoga Springs (NY) USA
November 13th, 2007
GARDENS OF DESTINY
To eat local is easy if you grow your food by yourself!
Did you see the doc GARDENS OF DESTINY? It is a very important film about organic food, seeds and all the good and cheap politics about food in North America.
Check it out: www.SALTSPRINGSEEDS.COM (click Catalogue)
November 8th, 2007
Re: Yet another Locavore link
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Thank you for that Jim - there's also this presentation from Barbara Kingsolver, author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, in which she and her family ate locally for an entire year. That certainly steps up the challenge!November 8th, 2007
Re: Eat Local Challenges, 100 Mile Diets and Locavores
November 9th, 2007
RE: Eat Local Challenges
Ok - I am registering my interest. I do want to point out that in some ways we have some real limits to what we can eat here. I think we can still use imported spices. When I say imported I mean anything from out side our 160km radius. But we should try to use fresh herbs. I need to grow some pepper it seems.
What about cheese? Where can we get local cheese? There is plenty of milk around I have been told but I have not seen it yet. Ideas?
Beer. There is no local beer. In fact there really isn't any local barley, wheat or hops to make the beer. I would say there does not need to be local yeast to ferment the beer. We do have some local wine which may save us ;-)
And if there is no wheat or barley for beer then there isn't any for bread. You can see my order of concern.
Sugar - now you may laugh but can you buy sugar that has not been shipped away and packed and then comes back? Sorry. Not yours! I really hope I am wrong on that.
I believe that in order for this to work well, to raise awareness in the wider community, we need to be able to eat well and that means tasty. It means pastry! It means desserts. It means hors d'ouvres. It means feeding a family of four. It means planning.
We're lucky we have local coffee!
Dean