[whorled leaves]

The tyee has a really great spread on this..
100-Mile Diet :: Series :: thetyee.ca

[katharina]

Originally Posted by peachy

It literally is called the 100 mile diet!

Here's a linke to Amazon to show you the book!

Amazon.ca: The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating: Books: Alisa Smith,J.B. Mackinnon

Well at least they know how to choose a good title for a book, eh? I kept this "local organic food" thing in mind when I was shopping on Saturday. It really isn't so hard to do at all.

[Mick]

The local famrs by my house in jersey ( well semi major roads are on them) constant cars driveing by alot of them, that can not be good for the crops, food, or us. Its kinda scary! plus i dont pay the bills so theirs not to much i can do about it their either.

[Lyndsey]

You know, I was really making an effort to eat local for a while, even with my allergy-restricted diet, and I could see lots of justification for it. More recently, however, I saw an article about how eating local can deprive growers in the developing world of an important source of income. I will still opt for local if it's really a local specialty, but I may rethink being too strict about local only.

[atula]

I too have heard of this book and the concept too..luckily the area where I live in there are many loval farmers who sell there products directly so I really dont have to go even as far as 50 miles....

[justontime]

For those in UK you may be interested in a similar experiment using local food, it is called The Fife Diet you can find out more here The Fife Diet

[deltic]

Thanks for that link, I heard something on the news about the Fife Diet, the person interviewed said that it took more time to prepare the food, but they had seen their food bills go down, that has to be an incentive in these difficult times.

[justontime]

I think many people would be happy to trade extra preparation time for lower food bills, times are hard just now.

[deltic]

Originally Posted by justontime

I think many people would be happy to trade extra preparation time for lower food bills, times are hard just now.

I would be happy to make that trade, I read a lot about it since you posted the link and I think it would be a good thing to try in my area.