During the 2020 pandemic, we all experienced Empty Shelves Syndrome. We saw the truth: grocery stores are the end point of the global, industrial-scale, just-in-time food system. Grocery stores don’t have food. They stock food.
Solution?
Eat more local food and support your local farmers. Take the challenge: for 10 days, eat food grown within 100 miles of home, with just 10 exotics (foods from afar you can’t live without).
Start your hunt for local food now. Plant a garden. Find farm stands, farmers markets, food in the forest.
How local can we go? How well can we – the-eaters – feed ourselves from where we live? We’re going to find out. Together.
Here’s the basics:
Select 10 days when you will commit to eating food sourced within 100 miles (more or less of your home).
Give yourself 10 exotics, foods from afar you can’t live without. No need to suffer.
Do it yourself or form a team with your club, church, class, pals.
Be nourished by food that breathes the same air, drinks the same water and soaks up the same sun you do. Commit to your place on earth. Find community. Create a vibrant food culture. Take charge of your diet. Liberate yourself from almost total dependency on the global food system. Surprise yourself. Get radical. Inspire others. This is an experiment. There are no wrong answers. No failures. All experience is information. Your experience matters.
At the end of your 10 days:
How did the experiment go?
If you redesigned it for your friends and networks, what would you change?
What was surprisingly hard?
What was surprisingly easy?
What made it worth your time, money and effort?
If you couldn’t do it, why?
Remember, this is an experiment. There are no wrong answers. No failures. All experience is information.
Remember, if we want to be a good food nation, we’ll need more good food sourced closer to home. We need this to build our health, communities, economies and our kid’s futures.
