Eating Locally

We've been enjoying eating the bounty from my mom's garden. This naturally leads us to think about the distances food travels to get to the eaters. P & J were talking about farmers they know in the Santa Cruz area who leave at 1 am to drive to Tahoe to sell at the Farmers Markets there. Then, yesterday, our friend D sent us this interesting article: Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet

These people are trying to limit their eating-at-home food to items grown within one hundred miles of their home, knowing that their European ancestors did it a century ago and the indigenous people did it for centuries. They lost 15 pounds each right away and found that they had to loosen their rules to include wheat grown further away but milled nearby because otherwise they had no staple starch. It's an interesting proposition.