So we've all been hearing about how we should be eating foods from within 100 miles. It's both ecological - read lower carbon footprint, and likely healthier (as long as you avoid that large conglomeration meat processing plant in the next town...)
The easiest thing to do is to find the area that is covered in my 100 mile challenge... Here is the map. The hard part is to find the sources for simple, un-thought-of ingredients, that we find everyday at the grocery store but that come from away...
Where will I find a source for local salt? Do I have access to a local leavener? I know that I can make my own natural sourdough with local flour and water, but where can I find baking soda? Baking powder? And spices? Will I find vanilla? Will I find bay leaves? We certainly don't have the climate for citrus... What about meat? What fruits & vegetables will I find locally? What grains?
And then we need to consider the seasons. We have a long winter and a short growing season...
So here goes the research and preperation. I'll blog periodically to let you know what sources I find, what problems I run into and what the family thinks of our progress.
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