Willits Locavores

The Bay Area locavores (http://www.locavores.com/) have inspired copy cats here in Mendocino County. 

Our local food month this year is October. The relocalization groups in the county are promoting local food with various events and my wife and I are going to each locally that month...for all our meals. I hope we get some others to join us. The Anderson Valley Food Shed Project has led this and created a survey to discover what local food producers exist and what they produce: http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/EatingLocalSurvey.pdf

A couple of years ago a young woman named Alida Freeda Burnstad did this too. She lives in Potter Valley, not Willits (Little Lake Valley) but I expect similar challenges. She chronicled her experiences here: http://www.cloudforest.org/%2704/%2705_News_Archive#12.2F8_Hunger_Strike_-_Resistance_Weakens

I will email her to see if she has more info and see if the AV Foodshed folks have some helpful data.

My goal will be to source as much as we can within Willits vicinity (our zip code), then extend within the county, and allow within ca. 100 mile radius. That would take us as far south as Petaluma and into the productive zones of Lake county.

 

Comments

ahazelwood's picture

Eating local

Jason, have you started this? How's it going?

Edit to update: I just realised you've been keeping track on your own blog, which for some reason isn't linked to on the Willits page even though the first post about it was. In any case, I'm now getting caught up! For others that might be similarly confused, Jason's entire blog with the continuing story, is here.

Andi Hazelwood