Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon have popularized eating local and are credited with the 100 Mile Diet phenomena currently sweeping through North America. Having spent an entire year eating food that was grown within 100 miles of their home on the West Coast, they have created a quiet movement that is sweeping through Canada and the US. They deserve much credit for their commitment, perseverance and desire to educate the masses about our industrialized agriculture system. If you like reading, you can check out their book: The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
As our harvest is coming in with varying degrees of success, we are planting our winter crops and planning next year’s season. We have been inspired by the bounty that we have been able to cultivate and forage within our immediate neighborhood and would like to build on James and Alisa’s success. It’s time to raise the bar with a new challenge: The One Mile Diet: A Lifetime of Extremely Local Eating. This isn’t something that can be done cold turkey and we may never reach the goal in entirely but it is the direction we choose to direct our life’s energy for the foreseeable future. It will be a process of incremental improvement, innovation, community involvement and lots of time in the garden! Stay Tuned!