Showing posts with label PA Preferred. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PA Preferred. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

How Local is Local?

Here's another story on defining "local" food. http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-10-27-local-grown-farms-produce_N.htm
At a program last weekend, we learned that the PA Dept of Agriculture defines local as being produced in Pennsylvania. This was in reference to the PA Preferred program. http://www.agriculture.state.pa.us/papreferred/site/
Some "Locavores" have a tighter definition of local ...... the "100 Mile Diet", for instance. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1200783,00.html
How big is your "foodshed"? I try to write about the farms & food that are "local to me". Sometimes, as you can see from my posts, it can be a farmstand, farmers' market, or farm that I pass closeby while traveling. So that's my own version of local!