LIVING GREEN - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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Good morning, 

Have you ever heard the word "locavore?" It was the 2007 
Oxford University Press word of the year. It is a person 
who eats (or at least tries to eat) only foods grown or 
harvested within a 100 mile radius of where he or she lives. 

We have discussed this topic several time in this news-
letter, but really, how practical is it? Wynne Everett, a 
writer for the Chicago area Southtown Star, has addressed 
this very topic in her effort to eat only local foods for 
the entire summer. 

Scroll down for some excerpts and some great ideas from her 
article. 

Thanks for reading, 

Your Living Green editor 


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Wynne's rules, er... make that guidelines. The Goal: For as 
much of my diet as possible to be produced within 100 miles 
of Tinley Park. Exemptions: Sugar, olive oil, salt and pep-
per, tea, the occasional pop, vodka, tequila. 

Challenge: Eating locally will require a great deal of plan-
ning. Like most of us, I am accustomed to being able to grab 
any number of ready-to-eat processed consumer food products 
without so much as considering where they come from. I'm 
going to need to get good at planning, shopping and stocking 
up.

Local produce is fresher, and fresher food tastes better. 

It takes less fuel to get local food to my plate, thereby 
helping the environment.

Buying locally produced food helps our local economy.

"It's really good for your local community," said Diane Hatz, 
founder and director of the New York-based group Sustainable 
Table. "When you buy food from local farmers that farmer 
takes that money and goes to the local diner or the local 
store. That money stays in your community."

The community of people involved in this are very supportive 
and it's a totally doable thing. I tell people that the 
challenge with eating locally is actually sitting down and 
planning. All the food you need is available. You just have 
to spend some time on the weekends planning your menus and 
your shopping.

I think I will end up eating healthier. Eating local food is 
likely to mean gathering local ingredients and preparing my 
own food, I suspect. This should mean fewer preservatives and 
other chemicals that come with processed food.

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