100 Mile

By now, everyone has heard about the 100 mile diet, which took North America by storm a few years ago when Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon decided they were going to live a whole year eating only food grown within 100 miles of their home. Many of us even before this ambitious project recognized the ecological importance of eating food grown locally, but as Smith and MacKinnon found out, it isn't necessarily easy to do.

This is intended a guide for the rest of us, who would like to get more local food in our diets, but are not just sure how to go about it. The first thing to mention is that going cold-turkey from one day to the next is just insane. Even Smith and MacKinnon agree it was extremely difficult to do, and that it is not for everyone. I believe that cold-turkey is the surest route to failure for most people, which is why I am writing this.