Eat Local Challenge
Family Farm Fresh is participating in the Eat Local Challenge!
The following is a blurb from their website. For more information, a direct link is provided at the end of the article.
Is it October already? This is an announcement for the 5th Annual Eat Local Challenge which takes place this month. It’s hard to believe that such a simple concept — eating as much food as possible from local sources — has taken hold to such and extreme level and has been celebrated by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. I’ve seen it, and I know that you have too — these days, everyone is talking about eating local. Many people are starting to see the wisdom in what we at the Eat Local Challenge have been discussing for a while, and it’s an exciting thing to watch.
Week One (through October 9): Taking Stock
We’ll take this week to reassess eating locally. Do the old eat local tenets hold up under a 2009 microscope? Where could we be doing better with eating locally? What should this month hold?
Week Two (October 10 – 16): Personal Challenges
How can we personally eat locally in a sustainable manner? What is the “low-hanging fruit” with regard to eating locally that we can easily change during this week?
Week Three (October 17 – 23): Friends and Family
Let’s take this week to move eating locally out to our families. Can we convince our kids to take local apples to school instead of out-of-season blueberries? Can we ask our spouses to eat locally this week?
Week Four (October 24 – 31): Taking it to the Community
Week four will focus on eating locally within our communities. We can host potlucks and eat local parties, we can check in with our schools to hear whether they are supporting local farmers with their buying decisions.
http://www.eatlocalchallenge.com/2009/10/announcing-the-october-2009-eat-local-challenge.html