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Locavore
To complete the Locavore feat — which is new and improved from our Eat.Sweat.Blog. challenge — everything you consume for 24 consecutive hours must come from within 100 miles of your home. This hardly calls for suffering. Local breads, cheeses, wines, meats, seafoods, and, of course, fruits and veggies are easily found at your local farmers' market. You just may need to plan ahead a little. Eating local has many virtues: Your fruits and veggies will typically have ripened longer, and be fresher, and so taste better. When you buy them, you'll be supporting the local economy. And you'll be saving jet fuel and/or diesel which would otherwise be burned transporting your groceries from far off lands — thereby doing your part in the battle against pollution and global warming. It's also sort of cool to stay in touch with the seasons, and, when the going gets tough, and the trucks and planes aren't moving, we'll be in better shape if there are some farmers nearby to feed us....
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Comments
Ut oh. Finding local coffee might be a toughie ;)
Submitted by runleenarun on 01.04.10 at 01:27.
I think some of Gorilla Coffee is made locally. Same with Oslo. Both are in Brooklyn.
!!!???Question???!!!
Does buying food from local farms at Whole Foods count?
Submitted by oiwuc on 01.10.10 at 06:37.
Sweet. Boston Organics/Enterprise Farms/Chestnut CSA not to mention others FTW.
Submitted by armandae on 01.12.10 at 01:13.
Went to Whole Foods in California and bought carrots from this woman's booth that they hand picked at the farm that morning! And they were delicious!
Submitted by VivaAviva on 01.14.10 at 01:14.
Did a duck confit of local game and fat rendered from local ducks, thyme, rosemary. Did deglazed carrots and turnips from local farms and butter sourced locally :) Eating locally seems like it would be a hardship in New England in winter, but definitely not the case.
Submitted by armandae on 01.14.10 at 11:26.
@oiwuc: I think local farms definitely count, no matter where you buy their produce from. I'm counting the Long Island potatoes from my Key Foods.
But I don't think even Gorilla or Oslo grow their coffee beans within 100 miles of Brooklyn, so coffee drinkers might be SOL that day. ;-)
Submitted by samritchie on 01.16.10 at 04:45.
oh wow, was I even thinking when I posted that? ha! I do think they roast it here though!
Submitted by oiwuc on 01.16.10 at 05:22.
It was tough.. but I survived off of apples and root vegetables I bought at a local farm stand this weekend. I did saturday evening thru this morning.
Submitted by FrogOmnibus on 01.18.10 at 02:20.
I shop at the Union Square Farmers Market every week. Luckily they have hothouse tomatoes. Going 100% local for the day wasn't too difficult.
Submitted by VeganDiva on 01.19.10 at 02:56.
interesting post dude.... juz got your site while surfing for a+ questions and found it quite useful for tym pass purpose. Content is really amazing. I'll definely want to start something like this after completing microsoft mcts and security+ questions certifications..
Submitted by walmer on 01.20.10 at 07:12.
YUM! Okay, I can do this too! Maybe not the duck confit, but something!
Submitted by andrealc23 on 01.25.10 at 05:56.
This one was pretty painless, except for going without coffee for a day. I don't mind our local tea, but it's no replacement for coffee!
Submitted by Daisy58 on 01.29.10 at 03:38.
I'm suspicious about Whole Foods' "local" markings. I went to the Tribeca Whole Foods this morning and the crab cakes were marked as local, specifically from New Jersey. Query: Is the crab that made the crab cakes local or were the crab cakes just assembled locally? The crab legs available were not local, and in fact, the only local fish was monkfish and whole mackerel. I was so suspicious, I just bought stuff from Ronnybrook. There were some local steaks, so I may go back tomorrow.
Submitted by gotigers2003 on 01.30.10 at 04:04.
Here comes success.
3 local eggs, fried for breakfast.
Lunch: spinach stromboli and potato knish for the Union Square Farmer's Market.
Dinner: eggplant stromboli same source
Apples and pears from the same source if I get hungry this evening, though the 24 hours is probably already up.
Submitted by @HereNow on 02.03.10 at 10:46.
Feat accompli, even in the middle of the desert! Hooray!
Submitted by babarbanel on 02.05.10 at 11:14.
Hooray for Red Hill Cheese and the St. Kilda VegOut market - done.
Submitted by swell1 on 02.06.10 at 03:06.
I freuqent Green City Market and enjoy buying the local items from the Whole Foods and Kingsbury so this was a treat!
Submitted by greengirl20 on 02.06.10 at 01:07.
Doing this today. No coffee. Feel like dying.
Submitted by runleenarun on 02.08.10 at 03:14.
7 am to 7 am, lots of checking and making sure things were close. Got eggs that were under 100 miles, mushrooms, and even flour that claimed close proximity to my home. I used a lot of Google mapping to be sure. I didn't starve, but I would definitely expand this to 200 miles if I were to do this in real life, just for the extra cheeses & whatnot.
I will be having a local butternut squash soup made with a local onion, garlic, cream and other goodies tonight. Yum.
Submitted by lrcat22 on 02.10.10 at 11:32.
I talke about this in the general post. I went to the Union Squre market and even mentioned vendors. Too much to repeat, but, it was a valuable experience.
Submitted by Rowing the Harlem on 02.12.10 at 12:46.