When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles
from 100milediet.org
love this idea, the attempt to acquire your food from within a 100 miles of home. i say acquire because many of the people who have joined the movement are growing their own and exchanging with like-minded folk. it's become, inevitably, if you think about, a replica of bygone days, with people returning to the old talents of canning, drying, cooking from scratch. the bartering and craft revivals, too, are all reminiscent of how we used to live. i love it.
i would never want to live in those days, without electricity or teh intarweb, or all the modern advances of society. i'm no luddite. but i think recapturing those values, resurrecting the forgotten arts of baking, sewing, knitting, creating and mending... they don't much fit in with our working lifestyles but i'd love to be self-sufficient and spend time growing and drying my own food, sewing my own clothes as i used to, fixing things rather than recycling them and buying new. you get the picture. it's not just about returning to the old ways, it's about recognising the need for sustainability here and now.
