Everyday Systems

I found this web site to help you find local foods in your state (or from surrounding states).

If you can still find it, the January issue of Martha Stewart Living had a great article about vegetables and fruits, eating organic (or not), eating locally. As evidenced by the web site above, unless you live in California, eating locally year round is difficult, if not impossible!

I'm just trying to stay seasonal and from the U.S.

I read this series a few years ago about a family that committed to eating locally produced food for a year. Summer was easy, but in the winter they had a lot of trouble until they laid aside their modern thinking. They started looking into what people in the area ate a few generations ago and how foods were preserved or prepared.

I don't know that it's impossible, but it does require a change in how we think. The problem is, I don't know that most people want to make that change. I certainly haven't made it entirely, but found a compromise that for now I can live with.