Sun Aug 09, 2009 at 11:14:39 AM PDT
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( - promoted by Jill Richardson)
Eating local, or locavorism, has become popular over the past several years, and is made easier now more than ever by the astonishing increase in farmers markets around the country, CSA farms, local foods buying clubs, and websites like Local Harvest. These resources, and others, make available to consumers, be they urban or rural, or of the grow-your-own or the buy-it-from-someone-else set, a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, pulses, herbs, meats, dairy, eggs.... well, you get the idea. In fact, there isn't a major city that I can think of in the lower 48 that isn't surrounded by some kind of agriculture. So the idea that a person wouldn't be able to eat locally to a greater or lesser degree, and year round even, strikes me as somewhat odd. Yet as I have read off and on for the past year, 'ya just can't do that' in this modern day and age. An article in a southern Oregon newspaper even went so far as to quote an interviewee as being very skeptical that a person could supply all their nutritional needs by eating seasonal, locally produced foods, and it would be very difficult anyway.
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