Eating locally means buying and eating foods within 100 miles of where you live. This saves a lot of fuel and time normally used on packing and transporting produce to grocery stores. There are producers of beef, milk, cheese, eggs, honey, fruit and vegetables all within 100 miles of us.
You can even grow a few veggies yourself. It's exciting to see the plants grow and change. And the vegetables are delicious.
Last year, we took the Sierra Club's Local Food Challenge and pledged to buy 25% of our food from local sources. It wasn't difficult at all. This year, we're stepping up our efforts and will freeze more foods from the summer which will cut our costs during the winter.
Keep an eye our for the blackberries along Hooes Road near the golf course. They should bloom soon and ripen in June. We picked enough last year to make a blackberry cobbler and freeze some too.
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