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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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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet (Part 2) – That Pesky Border

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This is part 2 of a series of re-imagining the 100-mile diet – both by combining philosophical approaches and good old math and geography.  We really hope you’ll join the discussion that’s going on in the comments or on our facebook page.  Every comment between in either place between now and January 13th (5PM EST) [...]

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Re-Imagining the 100-Mile Diet

Posted in Local and Seasonal Eating, tagged , , , on January 5, 2011 | 29 Comments »

In today’s post we launch a new series of posts, relaunch our Facebook Page and announce a contest for an autographed copy of Keeping Chicken’s with Ashley English.  We’ll start with the post and the new series as I believe that’s what most of you are here for.  To see all of the posts in [...]

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The Meatrix…then and now

Posted in Food Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Sustainable Table produced the following video in 2003: There are two more videos available on The Meatrix – Canada is mentioned in the second video (I mention this as Well Preserved is Canadian based though we are fortunate to have many loyal followers in the US and UK).  I am a junkie for all things [...]

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Visiting the local Farmer’s Market in Markham

Posted in Farmers, Farms and Markets, tagged , , , , , , , on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Dana and I both spent formative years in Markham (we were friends in high school though we became a couple almost 15 years after meeting).  Her family has moved to Lindsay, mine has stayed in the place of my youth. We were visiting suburbia this weekend as a launching point to go to (and return [...]

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