Our Best Advice

Local food wheels help you know what is seasonal in your area. Avoid buying foods from countries in different seasonal zones, and buy locally instead at your farmers market.Â

Eating within 100 miles of your city location is called being a LOCAVORE. Our best advice TIP for today is “go local” and become a locavore. The concept “think globally act locally” is a known political slogan. Buying food from your local farmers markets, community gardens, food co-ops, farmers markets or community supported agriculture is a great way to do that. You can also join private group membership organizations for a small fee (usually about twenty-five dollars like the one I belong to) that carry food from local sources providing fresh produce, meats, and other products, with the added benefit of meeting other folks with similar interests to share new ideas and TIPS. Find local providers in your area online. Take action to create a community garden in your immediate area or neighborhood if there isn’t one already. Involve children and their schools to provide classes teaching how to grow vegetables and flowers that work together for organic farming methods. My favorite home method is the French Garden technique. All you need is a 4 by 6 foot size plot of dirt you create by framing and raising the patch above ground to keep pests away. Or if you live in an apartment, you can create “square inch”  gardening (good for any garden), if you have a balcony or terrace. Or you can grow tomatoes, lemons, berries, and herbs in clay pots purchased from your local nursery with organic seeds. Group with neighbors who have a backyard and offer to grow together, each of you planting different variety of food to share.