Eat Local Challenge

Jennifer Maiser , in association with the Locavores , is hosting the May " Eat Local Challenge ". Participants agree to focus on eating food grown and produced in their area during the month of May.  How stringent or loose you decide to make your personal challenge is up to you.

I'm German, and my blog is mostly in german, so I'm trying to extend this challenge to Germany as well :-)

In designing your personal challenge, you should answer the following questions:

1.  What's your definition of local for this challenge?

We are a family of five, with three kids 9-14. So I guess, it's a bit much of a challenge to choose a 100 miles radius, although we are living in the Bay Area :-) My definition of local for this challenge will be the State of California.

2.  What exemptions will you claim?

A lot ;-) We're coffee and tea drinker, we love Asian and Indian food, ( so there are a lot of spices, condiments, basmati and/or jasmin rice ), cashew or peanut butter for the kids. We are Germans, so we eat tons of bread, ( saying flour ). The kids love pasta, of course, so there's flour or semolina again. Fish, meat or veggies shouldn't be a problem, though.

3.  What is your personal goal for the month?

I don't think, it's possible for us to eat entirely locally ( although we shop a lot at farmers markets, Whole Food, Mollie Stones or Lunardis ), but I will try to buy as much as possible local as well to get as much information about available local food as I can.

So you're ready to take the challenge ... now what?

* Go sign up on the Locavores site.  This is a good way to be counted in the challenge, and to receive updates during the month.

* If you are a blogger, post about the above questions and send me a link to the post by Sunday, April 30.  During the first week of the challenge, I will be posting a summary of blogs to watch on the new website dedicated to eating locally year-round (launching this week). 

* If you are not a blogger and would like to write about your experiences for the world, please contact me via email.

Would you like more information?  If you would like a better sense of the Eat Local Challenge, you can view the links above, on the right, which are associated with the August 2005 challenge in which over 600 people and 60 bloggers participated.  Also, read the Locavores' site, and keep an eye on this site in the coming weeks for further information.

Comments

[Kommentiert von: Foodfreak]

Das finde ich sehr nett von Dir dass Du mir die Arbeit abgenommen hast .. jetzt fehlt ja nur noch der Aufruf in Deutsch vor dem ich mich seit Wochen drücke, seit ich bei Barbara von Tigers & Strawberries las dass es auch dieses Jahr wieder den Eat Local Challenge gibt. Aber irgendwie hab ich grad keine geistigen Ressourcen frei das der deutschen Community noch auf Deutsch beizubiegen...