Please contribute to our Eat Local discussion!

-What are your goals for the September Eat Local Challenge?

-How are you preparing or planning for the Challenge?

-Have you discovered a great local food you'd like to tell others about?

-What challenges have you had in finding local food?

-What types of meals have you prepared with local food?

How you can post on this blog:

To post on the blog, just click the "comments" link after the weekly post by Becky, the blog moderator. Then you can type your own message, which will show up as a comment to the main post but can still be viewed by all!

Monday, August 25, 2008

Sign Up for the Eat Local Challenge

Sign up and be counted!

You can sign up on the statewide challenge website and also leave a comment here to let us know that you are participating in the challenge.

What are your personal goals for the week?

How are you defining your local radius/borders?
Examples: 100 mile radius, within the state of WI, from your garden...

What amount of local food will you be choosing?
Examples: 10% of your food budget, 100% of your meals, $10 per week, 1 meal per day...

What are your exemptions?
Examples: Salt, Fair Trade Coffee, Tea, Organic Olive oil, Chocolate...

Then keep us posted about how your challenge is going- we want to hear from you!
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Anonymous said...

The great peach farmer and poet, Mas Masumoto, recently said that the future of farming lies in "the story of food".

My challenge this week wil be to know better the stories of all the foods I eat. This will play out in the garden fresh foods, backyard eggs, and Wisconsin farmstead cheeses I eat on a regular basis, but extend to learning the story of where the salt I use comes from and learning more about the soil conditions, harvesting practices, production methods, and people involved in creating all of the "fair-trade" products I enjoy: coffee, wine, olive oil. Therein lies the challenge for me- to take enough time to truly get to know the story that comes along with ALL of my choices.

September 4, 2008 at 9:50 AM

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