Sunday Scribbles "The Experiment"

Ever think about where your food comes from? More specifically have you ever thought how many miles it had traveled before arriving on the supermarkets shelf. I admit I haven’t considered the distance in the past, only when I saw grown locally stickers or produce of Canada, that was till I read The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. The inside cover says:

When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that produced what they ate. For one year, they would consume only food that came from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born.

I finished it Friday night and found it such a rewarding read. They wrote about there own experiences and struggles in finding foods, the big-pictures, and some of their real life that happened along the way. I was inspired. I am in no way prepared to participate in a 100-mile experiment of my own but I have been craving fresh produce, longing for berry harvest so I can try my hand and jam making, and last night I bough a local squash…not sure what I am going to do with it yet. The book has got me thinking and that is always a good place.

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