Local Food and Supporting Farmers

Confession: I'm still learning and researching the topic.

But... I've been reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and would recommend it to anyone looking for a book on the benefits of eating locally grown food. Barbara Kingsolver and her family commit to eating all locally grown food for an entire year. They make their own cheese from local cows' milk, they grow their own vegetables and buy from local Farmers' Markets, they locate locally produced grain to purchase to make bread, and they even raise their own chickens for both eggs and meat. The book begins in April at the beginning of the growing season. I'm not too much past June, but I'm already inspired.

I'm looking into ways to adapt the ideas she presents and the problems she reports with transporting food across nations and continents into my own food culture. I live in a small apartment far from a farm, so my choices are much more limited than Kingsolvers, but I'd love to see how feasible it is for a single girl, living in an urban neighborhood, to move toward this type of lifestyle. I'll let you know what I come up with.

P.S. The Smoothie for the week is Strawberry Peach. (I'm enundated with Strawberries right now!)