Hola –
Robert Trent and I are diving on in. We share office space at Sierra Commons. He lives in town, I live on the Ridge. We’re both committing to eating ALAP – As Local As Possible – and we’re adding an element: we’re gonna see who needs to travel the least to get our already low-traveled food stuffs.
So on Day One Mike Ate: Eggs from my next door neighbor’s farm. Picked roadside blackberries down the street (I made a crumble with my nephew – most of the grains used were local, butter as well.), meat from Chaffin Farms via the NC Farmers Market, and veggies – corn, beans, arugula – from our Mountain Bounty CSA box which we get right up on Tyler Foote.
And my LOCAvore article ran in the LOCAL paper.
Robert – weren’t you on a plane? Any local peanuts in the pretzel snack mix?
Reality check from Mike: Coffee. I won’t – and haven’t given up coffee. I’ll probably down some peanut butter this month, too. More reality checks as the month progresses…
Robert?
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Yes, I was on a plane and am now in the full local swing of things. Took my son grocery shopping last night and was please to see that both stores were hip to the whole Eat Local thing. I found some confusion with the produce department peeps, but got that worked out. It was interesting to investigate if the fruit we were buying was actually local, or just packed by a local business. Turns out Newcastle Produce grows the stuff themselves. Really tasty stuff too.
As far as coffee goes, got some from Carolines. Guess that’s as local as we can get here.
Everything we purchased was local. Mostly fruit, so we will be fruititarians for a while. Milk and tofu rounded out our purchases.
I now want to start a fork in the Eat Local, America! program. Its called “Drink Local, Nevada City!” Wanna join me?