Mmm … Monadnock!

I meant to post this when I first heard it but forgot, but luckily NHPR has it online.

On the exchange, John Greenburg interviewed the new Agricultural Commissioner Lorraine Stewart Merrill and there was a real focus on the Eat Local movement in New Hampshire.

Here’s where you can hear it:

http://www.nhpr.org/node/16101

Then today, MSNBC has a lead story about locavorism — (I hate that spelling!)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24994028/

For years, the idea of eating only food grown locally and in season was reserved for upscale chefs like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or serious hippies living off the grid, while the rest of us didn’t think twice about gulping down blueberries from Chile or avocadoes from Mexico.