Help Wanted
Posted: March 23rd, 2008 by Lisa
We want this blog to have many voices, from farmers to homemakers to teachers to chefs to gardeners and business folks and everyone in between.
If you can commit to writing one entry a week about your experiences being a localvore in the Monadnock region, please write to me. Or, if you know someone we should try to recruit, please also let me know.
Comments
Comment from Karen Time: March 28, 2008, 1:46 pm
Hey, great idea to start a blog about eating locally here - after reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book last year we tried to eat locally all summer and found it pretty pricey. Last year we got all our produce from the Keene farmer’s market, and our milk and some meat from Connolly’s in Temple. Yes, it was beautiful and fresh and local and we felt good about that, but it still costs more than the grocery store, unfortunately.
This year we have our own chickens for eggs, and possibly meat. Would love to talk chickens with anybody!
Comment from Steve Schaefer Time: April 3, 2008, 9:17 pm
In response to the previous comment, Yes - it will cost you more of your budget to eat locally, unless you are actually producing it yourself, (and maybe it still will). Eating locally is in no way directly cheaper than buying food from big agribusiness at the supermarket. The reason is that those foods have many costs, economic, environmental, and ethical, hidden, covered by subsidy’s, and entangled in the fabric of everyday business. We have a dramatically lower food cost, per capita, compared to our grandparents and all the generations prior. We have attained that by ignoring the ethical and environmental costs of factory farming. Also we have ignored our own taste buds, opting for what is readily transportable and durable over what is delicate and succulent. The real costs are in the larger world and our effect on it.
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