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Monday, July 30, 2007
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Adventures in eating well and staying home!
What
Chapter 1: One month (August 2007) of eating completely local. Everything we eat will come from within a 100 mile radius of Madison, WI.
Chapter 2: We want to hear your stories! Surprise us, inspire us! We will continue to blog a few times a week, talking about the change of seasons, highlighting local eating in the news and profiling producers in our area. Please keep reading!
Chapter 3: Another growing season is here! Happy spring 2008! Local food news is everywhere, check back to see what is happening here in WI and around the world.
Chapter 2: We want to hear your stories! Surprise us, inspire us! We will continue to blog a few times a week, talking about the change of seasons, highlighting local eating in the news and profiling producers in our area. Please keep reading!
Chapter 3: Another growing season is here! Happy spring 2008! Local food news is everywhere, check back to see what is happening here in WI and around the world.
Where Can You Find Us Now?
Fine Print (from August 2007)
1) After a great deal of deliberation we decided to make an exception for salt.
2) If we procure food directly from the grower (for example while we are traveling somewhere) it can be from outside our radius.
2) If we procure food directly from the grower (for example while we are traveling somewhere) it can be from outside our radius.
Who
We are a mama (Jen), a daddy (Scott) and an eight-year old (Evie). We are homeschoolers, bread-bakers, kayakers, ice skaters, circus lovers, cat people and travelers.
We are not foodies or chefs or rich.
We are not foodies or chefs or rich.
Why
We live in a state that grows a lot of food. We are within walking distance from the largest producers Farmers Market in North America. We know that locally grown food is better for our environment, better economics, better tasting, better for our health and better for our relationships. We want to inspire others to take a leap to local eating. We are an ordinary family who cares deeply for the planet we live on. Eating locally is the most concrete and radical thing we can do to make the world a better place.
What we look like
Cha-ching! How much does it cost to eat local?
These were our expenditures for the month of August 2007, eating nothing from further than 100 miles from Madison, WI. People still ask us about money so this will stay in the sidebar for now!
Week 1 : August 1-3: $10.50 (dairy), $11.25 (produce)
TOTAL: $21.75
Time: It takes a long time to mill your own grain and make peanut butter!
Week 2: August 4-10: $130 (Farmer's Market), $15.50 (farmstand, winery)
TOTAL: $145.50
Time: 2.5 hours for peanut butter, hours and hours for processing grain and baking
Week 3: August 11- 17: $100 (Farmer's Market), $51.69 (pick your own)
TOTAL: $151.69
Time: Anything involving cereal crops continues to take hours and hours of our time.
Week 4: August 18-24: $80 (Farmers Market), $16 (grocery store--still all local, don't worry!) $???? (meal out -see 8/24--my parents treated us)
TOTAL: $96+
Time: Minimal this week, we had bread products in place and Scott was out of town so meals were simpler
Week 5: August 25-31: $96 (Farmers Markets), $30 berry picking
TOTAL: $126
Time: Tortillas and peanut butter took some time but we weren't stockpiling for the coming week as much
TOTAL MONEY SPENT IN AUGUST ON FOOD: $540.94
Week 1 : August 1-3: $10.50 (dairy), $11.25 (produce)
TOTAL: $21.75
Time: It takes a long time to mill your own grain and make peanut butter!
Week 2: August 4-10: $130 (Farmer's Market), $15.50 (farmstand, winery)
TOTAL: $145.50
Time: 2.5 hours for peanut butter, hours and hours for processing grain and baking
Week 3: August 11- 17: $100 (Farmer's Market), $51.69 (pick your own)
TOTAL: $151.69
Time: Anything involving cereal crops continues to take hours and hours of our time.
Week 4: August 18-24: $80 (Farmers Market), $16 (grocery store--still all local, don't worry!) $???? (meal out -see 8/24--my parents treated us)
TOTAL: $96+
Time: Minimal this week, we had bread products in place and Scott was out of town so meals were simpler
Week 5: August 25-31: $96 (Farmers Markets), $30 berry picking
TOTAL: $126
Time: Tortillas and peanut butter took some time but we weren't stockpiling for the coming week as much
TOTAL MONEY SPENT IN AUGUST ON FOOD: $540.94
WI Food Resources
- Westside Community Market
- REAP Food Group
- Savorwisconsin
- Dane County Farmers Market
- UW Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
- Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service
- Growing Power
- Community Action Coalition
- Dane County Buy Local
- Friends of Troy Gardens
- Home grown Wisconsin
- Madison Area CSA Coalition
- Willy St. Co-op
- Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
- Slow Food Wisconsin
Local Food Resources Worldwide
- Food Routes - Find Your Local Food
- Eat Wild
- Eat Well Guide
- Sustainable Table
- Locavores-100 miles from San Francisco
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
- 100 Mile Diet
- USDA Farmers Markets
- Local Harvest - National Directory of CSA, small farms and food co-ops
- Community Food Security Coalition
- American Farmland Trust
Other Local Food Blogs
- Maybe Local Vegan (MI)
- 24 Boxes (IL)
- Simply Local Idaho (ID)
- Livin' La Vida Local (CA)
- Cincinnati Locavore (OH)
- Urban Hennery (WA)
- I'm Mad and I Eat (CA)
- What Geeks Eat (WI)
- Path to Freedom (CA)
- Slowly She Turned (CA)
- Cookin' In the 'Cuse (NY)
- Low Mileage Food (NC)
- Eat Local Challenge
- One Local Summer
Books: Food for Thought
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