Locavore is a new word meaning people whose diet focuses on food grown or produced locally or with a certain radius usually for ecological reasons. A locavore couple located in Sugarland, TX is taking on a challenge of only eating locally grown food within 100 miles of their home and blogging about it on 100mileharvest.com.
Why eat only locally grown food?
Adrian Arroyos and Maggie Kattan learned that the average “food miles” (the distance traveled from farm to plate) of certain produce items were 1,500 miles. The environmental impact consumers exert is great to participate in a centralized food system that includes packaging, processing, and refrigeration of processed foods. When consumers buy local food from a sustainable or organic farmer, they are not consuming any of the synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers that are routinely sprayed on conventionally-grown produce. Sustainable farming provides people with wholesome, healthy, and nutritious food that’s free of pesticides, fungicides, and other man-made chemicals. Not only is locally grown food good for consumers, they can help small farmers and help build a sense of community. Local food is also fresher and tastes better than food that has been shipped thousands of miles across the country and has been processed with chemicals.
Watch this video of the couple as explain what it means to eat locally.
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