Get Local with the 100-Mile Thanksgiving

by Katherine Gustafson · 2009-11-24 06:00:00 UTC
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100 Mile Thanksgiving If you eat the average Thanksgiving meal, your food will have traveled an average of 1,500 miles to make it to your groaning board.

Is that really the kind of carbon-emitting karma you want around the holiday table? If you'd rather something a little kinder and softer to the Earth, not to mention the local farmers in your area, maybe you should think about keeping it local this year.

100-Mile Diet, an organization dedicated to encouraging local eating, is promoting its 4th annual 100-Mile Thanksgiving. The challenge? Keep your holiday chowing focused on your home turf. The Website points out the truly American nature of such a meal: "We’re taking the harvest celebration back to its roots: fresh, local, seasonal food."

Visit the site to input your own story of local eating this year and find what others have to report. The list of stories includes traditional New England recipes and a report that in "Northampton, New Hampshire, Even Found Flour." Download posters, brochures, t-shirt designs and Web banners to spread the word far and wide, and check out the page of local food resources to find out where to look for your area's local agricultural treasures.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Image courtesy of 100-Mile Thanksgiving


Katherine Gustafson is a freelance writer and editor with a background in international nonprofit organizations.
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