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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 4/25/2007, you wrote:
> I remember reading
> another recently about a couple who are doing it for a year as, um,
> fodder for a book he is writing.

I believe that was Bill McKibbens.  I am currently reading his book "Deep 
Economy" in which he makes reference to a year of eating locally.  He lives 
in Vermont which can make that difficult in winter but not much over a 
hundred years ago we all ate locally.

As Peak Oil hits we may all have to eat more locally.  Currently you food 
travels on average over 1200 miles and the current US diet assumes that it 
is always summer somewhere.

Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com
My travel journal
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

I am omnivagant.  
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On Apr 25, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Don Bowen wrote:

> I believe that was Bill McKibbens.  I am currently reading his book  
> "Deep
> Economy" in which he makes reference to a year of eating locally.   
> He lives
> in Vermont which can make that difficult in winter but not much over a
> hundred years ago we all ate locally.

One of my reads this morning mused about the fact that oranges were  
once a treat found in upper Midwest Christmas stockings. Changing our  
mindset is perhaps the biggest challenge to eating locally-grown foods.