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Ideas to Describe Foods That Aren`t Local – But Want to Be

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating on June 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »

As a bit of background – in Canada we have a lot of food labelled as `Product of Canada.`  The legislation is often criticized for confusing the origins of food – i.e food grown on the other side of the world and then shipped here can be labelled `Product of Canada` if the packaging costs [...]

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The Wonderful Taste of Summer.. Another Reason Why We Eat Seasonally

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating on June 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »

I stopped by the pub on my home from work.  I was there to pick up our weekly delivery of farm-fresh food and the second delivery of the year from our CSA.  I stopped short of the temptation to grab a pint and enjoy the first day of summer on the patio. I had started [...]

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My Biggest Argument for Local food is Not Logical…

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating on March 16, 2011 | 10 Comments »

It`s emotional. I really considered hitting `POST`there (the temptation to beat our shortest post ever was tough to resist) .  I`m not sure I can add a lot to the statement above but allow me a chance to try. I sat in a restaurant last night in my hotel.  Some of the menu options: Maryland [...]

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How to Choose the Right Winter-CSA for you…

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating on January 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

With our winter community-shared agriculture program starting up today (more on that in the next few days), we thought we’d add to the tips we shared in the summer on how to pick a CSA that works for you in the winter.  We’re going to resist repeating tips from June but they very much apply [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 8); A Star-Crossed Conclusion

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 12, 2011 | 6 Comments »

For what it’s worth, we’re going to drive a conclusion to this series today…at least for now. It’s taken me 8 days to figure out what’s been bothering me about a fundamental assumption of the circle that comes with our 100-mile circle.  It hit me like a shovel today. The difficulty I have with the [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 7) – All about limits, City Limits

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I wanted to take another look at a map as we draw close to the end of this series. I have heard people say that they measure local food as a distance from the border of their city – rather than just a circle from where they live.  I was more curious than anything as [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 6) – Wholesale Rule Changes

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Since we`ve been playing with maps and math all week, perhaps it`s time to consider a few fundamental rule changes when attempting to define what is local to us.  It`s been fascinating to read and share ideas through the comments on how different our own interpretation of local can be.  Since we`ve been examining different [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 5) – The Squared Circle

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Let’s start today’s post with a retraction of a statement from yesterday: What I like about these shapes – considerably more than the circle is that we’re cutting out a lot of driving from opposite directions.  For example, the half-circle has a maximum driving distance between two farms as 141-miles.  The 100-mile circle has a [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 4) – Easy as Pie…

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 8, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This is part 4 of a series of re-imagining the 100-mile diet – both by combining philosophical approaches and good old math and geography.  We’re taking the measurement very literally and reapplying it in several different ways – not because we think the measurement should be so literal, but to provide food for thought.  We really [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 3) – The Problem with Water…

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »

This is part 3 of a series of re-imagining the 100-mile diet – both by combining philosophical approaches and good old math and geography.  We’re taking the measurement very literally and reapplying it in several different ways – not because we think the measurement should be so literal, but to provide food for thought.  We really [...]

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