Buy Local Food
Dear Friends,In these times, one of the most persistant and significant actions we as individuals can take is this: buy local food.
By buying local food, we reduce our personal impact on the climate, we reduce the amount of energy needed to grow our food and we help our own farmers and the local economy too. I encourage you to pledge to buy a portion of your food locally, say one pound a week. By local, I mean grown as close to home as possible, within 100 miles or preferably less. Whether you visit a farmers market, or a local store, or are able to grow your own or buy directly from the farmer--you eliminate miles of transportation energy embedded in the food you eat.
As an added incentive, I recently discovered that by doing this, you could also win a prize!
I encourage you to join me in taking a local food pledge (pledging to eat at least 1 pound a week from local sources). If you are willing to do this, please visit this link:
As a next step, perhaps those of you in Lake County who have joined the LakeFuture group list can begin to share their favorite local food choices with one another, or send them to me and i will post them on the www.lakefuture.org website. There, I will also post the link to the food pledge site and any other good local food ideas you send me.
Denise
P.S. The top prize of $6000 worth of landscaping would create a great garden. (If you win that prize, and don't have room for a garden, let me know and I am sure we can help you find a fledgling community group that could use the help.) Spread the word!
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