Eat Locally
Time Magazine’s current issue has as its cover story an article about making the decision between eating organically and eating locally. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1595245,00.html Give me locally every time! And the best way to eat locally (I may be prejudiced a little here) is to grow your own where possible. Second best way is to support your local farmers’ markets and CSA farms. If we don’t support these small local farmers (here I climb onto the soapbox) they will go out of business and we won’t have a choice but to buy from the supermarkets and big boxes. It’s not that I have anything against most of the supermarkets in my area, they do a fine job of providing our basic staples. But isn’t it nice that we have a choice? Wouldn’t you feel somehow cheated if you didn’t have a choice?
Check out the availability of farmers markets in your area. Seek out CSA farms (and if you find one in this Ohio Valley area, please let me know about it– I’ve searched for one in vain for several years.) And then support them! Don’t just think how cool it is that there is a farmers market available to you, and then never get around to going and shopping there.
Check out the Time article for more information. Then look out back for a flat sunny area that you can till up to plant some lettuce, and some tomatoes, and some red peppers, and some herbs and….
Written by Lynn on the slope of Teasel Hill where the temperature has dropped again and it is snowing.
