There are four days left until the month long Eat Local Challenge begins. And every day my morning coffee taunts me with the looming question - will I quit for the challenge?
What I love about the Eat Local Challenge though, which is being hosted for its third year in association with the Locavores is that there are lots of way to participate, coffee or not.
From eating only local instead of imported tomatoes for September, cooking one local meal a week or choosing fruit grown within the state for 30 days.
Or you can hop on the boat, set your course and go for the longer haul, (everything at our house has a sailing analogy) choosing to eat only food produced within 100 miles of your home for the entire month. I'm choosing the latter. With at least one exemption. Likely coffee.
Check out the ELC website for the full parade of participation. They make it sound so fun and not that challenging at all.
Here's a list of all the food I can think of at 11:30 on a Monday night that I'll eat because it's in season and produced locally:
Eggs
Pears
Peppers
Tomatoes
Eggplant
Mint
Cilantro
Onions
Olive Oil
Butter
Cheese, cheese, cheese and more cheese but I don't eat that much cheese.
Chicken
Strawberries
Green Beans
Apples
Melons
Tomatillas
Corn
Basil
Salt
My Full Belly Farm wheat flour
Figs
Garlic
Potatoes
Cabbage
Rancho Gordo Beans
Yogurt
Mushrooms
Apple Cider Vinegar
Popcorn
Olives
Brussell Spouts - I love them!
Chard
Beets
Sprouted beans from the Sprout Man
West Marin greens
grapes
Honey. Sweet, sweet honey.
18 hours ago
1 comment:
Hi Miss Kale
Just thinking about eating local seems like a challenge but then I remembered that just today I am eating local tomatoes, my girlfriend grew them in her garden and they are untouched by genetics. They are wonderful. I also had wild peaches for breakfast, grown right here in Santa Rosa, on the corner of Franklin and Carr St. Again thanks to my friend. She cut them in half and then froze then so they are somewhat a different consistency then fresh but it doesn't ruin the taste of them a bit. so im doing pretty good after all.
A purist I'm not but Im on the trail.
oh, and i'm stopping this afternoon to buy figs. there is a sign down the street from my house. $2.00 a basket. neighbors.
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