If you try and eat food grown locally, then you are a “locavore.” The reasons for growing your own food or eating food grown by someone else in a nearby location are endless. Better taste, good for the environment, supporting family farmers, are just a few of the reasons.
ANYWAY, if you are in to that sort of thing, or just curious, you should definitely check out Sunset Magazine’s blog, One Block Diet. The gist of the project is that a few dedicated Sunset Magazine editors decided to try and eat only food grown or raised on a piece of property roughly the size of a large, subruban backyard. On the blog, you’ll find funny, interesting, informative posts about raising chickens, growing tomatoes, improving on the BLT, beekeeping, beer brewing and more.
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I think I’m a seasonal Locavore? For some reason in the fall I can’t pass by a local farm without stopping! I think it’s something to do with all the pumpkins and squash sitting by the roadside that appeal to me. Either way, the fall harvest gets me in the door and all of the sudden I have an urge to bag up the fresh veggies and fruit, and if they have a shelf with fresh preserves and apple butter there’s really no stopping me! Is there anything better than apple butter and apple cider, I don’t think so!!
Amy — LOL! It’s funny, because when I read that yo are a seasonal locavore, I thought you were going to say that you eat local in the spring and summer.