Low Mileage Food

This week, there was a bit of a shortage on eggs at our local market. The Molners, whom we’ve been getting eggs from, had apparently run low this week, and we’re not at the top of the list for what they did have (which is perfectly fine. We’re occasionally flakey on pickups, and [...]

We tried to go to the farmer’s market this weekend, but one of the major local universities that is a block over from the market was having homecoming, and the whole area was blocked off. Streets that the city had said were going to be open were closed. We (a friend that was [...]

We have a two-part question for you. What food items/ingredients do you not bother trying to find locally? Do you go without those items, use less of them, or use as much as you want?
Spices, for example. We haven’t bothered trying to find a local source of most spices. We use [...]

Link to article.
Three years after the Food and Drug Administration first hinted that it might permit the sale of milk and meat from cloned animals, prompting public reactions that ranged from curiosity to disgust, the agency is poised to endorse marketing of the mass-produced animals for public consumption.
The decision, expected by the end of this [...]

We want to get back to doing regular farmer’s market reports, so that next year, when we’re trying to remember when we can expect to see certain foods coming into season, we can reference the site and make our meal planning easier.
Last week and this week looked very much the same: eggs, cheese, green [...]

Some numbers for September:
local, organic foods: 1 percent
non-local, organic foods: 31 percent
local, conventional foods: 36 percent
non-local, conventional foods: 31 percent
I think those are numbers that we can be happy with.
September was a month of conversing about some of the trade-offs in eating more locally, and in how it’s less convenient (we’re eating a lot less [...]