[Community_garden] Community_garden Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1

[Fred Conrad]

i'd try whole foods:  713.784.7776

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janie caldwell
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I'm interested in purchasing organic food,Ilive in the
77079 zip  code who do I call?
Janie

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>    1. Local Food Challenges (Sharon Gordon)
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> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:06:21 -0400
> From: "Sharon Gordon" <gordonse at one.net>
> Subject: [Community_garden] Local Food Challenges
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> Here are some Local Food Challenges going on around
> the world.  I was
> thinking that people with allotments/community
> garden plots or a home
> kitchen garden would have a great advantage in this
> sort of the challenge.
> Is anyone's allotment group, community garden plot,
> or council thinking of
> doing this type challenge in 2007?  I am thinking
> that it might be an
> opportunity to increase the skills of diverse
> plantings and also timing
> crops to produce more steady yields than all at once
> yields.  And likely
> there could be a great deal of sharing of seasonal
> recipes.  Most of these
> are 100 mile/160 kilometre challenges.  However I
> have read that a local
> food challenger in the UK figured out that from a
> sustainability standpoint
> it would be best if food came from within 12
> miles/19 kilometres.
> 
> For this year there is the opportunity to try a
> local Fall Harvest meal as
> noted in the
> http://100milediet.org/thanksgiving/ below.
> 
> 
> In October 2006 a number of people in Mendocino Co,
> CA, USA are challenging
> themselves to eat as much of their food locally as
> possible.  Here's a blog
> for people in the Willits area
> http://www.relocalize.net/blog/42
> and people can sign up with Jason Bradford to
> participate:
> jason at redinet.org
> 
> Willits also has a number of other ongoing local
> food projects.
> www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/
> 
> Anderson Valley  is keeping up with events,
> restuarants serving local foods,
> and stores with local food.
> http://www.coastlocalize.org
> People are celebrating with local food potlucks,
> harvest festivals, and
> workshops.
> They also have a list of challenge ideas for the
> month
>
http://www.coastlocalize.org/html_pages/October_Challenge.html
> 
> San Franciso did theirs earlier in the year during
> May.
> http://www.locavores.com/
> http://www.wisefoodways.com/
> One of their members created a local food cookbook
> called
> Full Moon Feast
> http://www.wisefoodways.com/moons/
> Here's a radio interview with the author
> http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/interviews/745
> 
> 
> The group also developed a local food wheel
> http://www.localfoodswheel.com/
> If your group decides to a food wheel I'd recommend
> a few differences:
> 1) Make it larger.  (Also plan to redo your wheel in
> a year or two to
> incorporate the improved access to local food that
> usually results from
> localization efforts.) This group did incorporate a
> rotating ring to provide
> info and reduce the size of the wheel.
> 2) Make rings on the wheel for the various
> categories of food such as dairy,
> fish/aquatic, fungi, fruits, grains, nuts and seeds,
> meat, vegetables
> 3) Consider if it would help to divide each month in
> half to more clearly
> show what is available at any given time.
> 
> In Canada Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon did a 100
> mile diet from Spring
> 2005 to Spring 2006.  They had a real struggle at
> the start, and a much
> better time when the farmer's markets were in
> abundance.
> http://100milediet.org/home/
> They are encouraging people to try a 100 mile
> Thanksgiving or Fall harvest
> feast.
> http://100milediet.org/thanksgiving/
> A group in Vancouver has a blogspot to organize
> theirs.
> http://100milethanksgiving.blogspot.com
> and workshops this week 
> 100milethanksgiving at gmail.com
> 
> For Local Food Challenges in other locations see
> http://100milediet.org/home/
> http://www.relocalize.net
> 
> If you know of other Local Food Challenges or help
> start one yourself,
> please add to this thread.
> 
> Anyone participating in your local challenge or the
> international
> Thanksgiving/Fall Harvest one at
> http://100milediet.org/home/ ?
> 
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
> 
> 
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