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Eat Local Challenge Update, Day 14

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 14, 2009
With a little planning, and the luck of some new foods in the local market, as well as better availability of some products this year, I think we have greater variety in our diet this time around. Our menu in the past week has included: Omelettes with Market Tomatoes, Sweet Home Farm Cheese, and Fresh [...]
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How Food Shapes Our Cities

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 14, 2009
Thanks to my brother-in-law for this link to video of architect and author Carolyn Steel (Hungry City) speaking at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, July 2009. In this 18-minute talk she gives an overview of the historical relationship between cities and agriculture and the changes technology has wrought. She says, “We live in a [...]
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ELC Days 1-5

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 5, 2009
My husband rolled his eyes and sighed the sigh of great suffering when I announced October had come again, no doubt remembering our Long Month of Sweet Potatoes from 2008. However, I’ve changed some exemptions this year and am trying to be more flexible, particularly while we’re still scrambling to get certain of our local [...]
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Eat Local Challenge 2009

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 30, 2009
For the second time I’m participating in the Eat Local Challenge. The traditional Eat Local Challenge is a basic concept: commit to eating only locally grown foods for a period of thirty days. Declare “exceptions” that you will not be eating locally, and try as hard as you can to have everything else come from [...]
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Countdown to the Eat Local Challenge

By Ang Jordan | Published: September 1, 2009
I’m planning on doing the Eat Local Challenge again this year, wherein participants eat food only from a reasonable local radius throughout the month of October. Last year was my first attempt, and while challenging it was not without its rewards, so throughout this year I’ve been planning with an eye towards October. And what [...]
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How to Begin Eating Locally

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 27, 2009
A nice little piece in the LocalHarvest February newsletter about “how to incorporate local foods into your diet”:http://www.localharvest.org/newsletter/20090224/.
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Don’t Forget to Check Local Harvest

By Ang Jordan | Published: March 23, 2009
With the growing awareness of sites like Local Harvest, more farmers are taking advantage of the chance to supply listings. Here’s the current “results within a 100-mile radius of Mobile”:http://www.localharvest.org/inarea.jsp?lat=30.671284&lon=-88.10299&ty=-1&rad=100&zip=36606.
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Reflections on the Eat Local Challenge

By Ang Jordan | Published: November 3, 2008
We’re into November now and I’ve put an end to my local foods diet. I’ve been battling a rough cold and am thankful that my husband could make me a pot of chicken soup. LESSONS LEARNED/PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR If we do this again next year (which I think likely we will), some things will [...]
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ELC Day 26: Salad

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 26, 2008
I’ve saved some choice ingredients for our final week of the Eat Local Challenge, and the change in seasons means we’ll be getting a little variety in our diet. Breakfast was my usual goat milk & honey muffins, chock full of toasted pecans. Lunch was tomato and arugula sandwiches. Dinner was this tasty salad, made [...]
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ELC Day 25: Citrus!

By Ang Jordan | Published: October 25, 2008
Aside from persimmons, there has been no fruit available here. There were satsumas at the market last Saturday, but I paid for mine and, much to my frustration, left them on the table. Today there were satsumas, tangerines, and kumquats. In addition to the citrus, also at today’s market were: baked goods, candy, cucumbers, eggs, [...]
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