100-Mile diet

I read this and couldn't help but think of some of you here.  It's cool and really gives a good spin on eating locally. 

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/100_mile_diet.html

What an interesting idea!

It's a very good idea most of the time ... but in wintertime I need citrus fruit! Scurvy is a bad thing! 

Very interesting idea but I'm spoiled and I'm addicted to kiwi.
Don't think I can find a local farm that has them.

In the summer I do visit the Farmer's Market every Saturday to get my fruits & vegs.  It's a bit more expensive, but you can't beat the taste of the items and I like to support the local private farms.

my sister works in nutrition in victoria, bc, and has worked on food security issues in the past... thanks for fowarding that link.

In the summer I do visit the Farmer's Market every Saturday to get my fruits & vegs.  It's a bit more expensive, but you can't beat the taste of the items and I like to support the local private farms.

I agree. And it's pretty easy to do the 100 mile thing in the summer. From now forward, actually!

It is an interesting idea. It would be pretty hard to do in the winter, but people did that not too long ago so it is doable.

I really commend them for doing it.  It's a commitment I could never make 100%, though.  I loathe squash, and that would be just about all I could find during the winter.  Plus, I couldn't imagine life without avocados.

I'm lucky that I live in the heart of farm country, and my city has one of the best (if not the best) farmer's markets in the country.  For the majority of the year I could easily live off what is grown within 100 miles of me.  However, I can't even imagine trying to do something like this in Phoenix!

The one point that I found compelling is that they canned a ton of food in the summer so they had food to eat in the winter.  In the article, they said they didn't visit the store at all in the winter. 

You would definitely need a freezer if you eat meat and lots of places to store canned food.  I have a bunch of relatives in the interior BC and they have lived like that forever.  Everyone bought a cow every year and one of the neighbours was a butcher who had all the equipment to professionally butcher meat and everyone had a garden and canned.  The pantries were impressive.

Not everyone had a milking cow but fresh milk was generally only a 10 min walk away.  Everyone had chickens for eating and for eggs. 

such a different kind of life from what I'm used to. 

When i was little, my grams canned everything. I remember sitting in her kitchen watching the jars line up and taking them down to her cellar for her. I'd like to learn how to do it as sadly I paid little attention back then.

A lot of fruit and veggies could be frozen too if you seal them well. They don't taste the same, but it would work...

It is a very nice idea.