Happy Earth Day to you! Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day around the country. What are you doing to honor our earth? One easy way is commit to eating at least one locally sourced meal a week."If every citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by 1.1 million barrels of oil every week," according to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Year of Food Life. That's huge!
When you choose to eat locally, you are eating food grown sustainably within 125 miles of the marketplace that is fresh! Produce available at the grocery store, on the other hand, travelled an average of 1,500 miles and required a lot of processing, packaging, warehousing, refrigeration and shipping to get to the store. And...it just doesn't taste as good as local food!
So celebrate Earth Day by shopping locally every Saturday at the market!
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