3. Connect directly with farmers. You can do this through farmers markets, farmgate sales, or subscribing to a CSA (community supported agriculture) box program.
4. Have a potluck with friends. It takes some research at first to discover where each ingredient is available in your local area. Have each friend pick a course, and share what he or she learns with other diners to lighten the load. Best of all, the food tastes great, and you have something to talk about over dinner!
Thank you Alisa and J.B.! PLENTY is available through Amazon.com or through Alisa and J.B.’s website: http://100milediet.org/
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ALISA SMITH is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Outside, Utne Reader, and many other publications. Based in Vancouver, she spends her summers in a wilderness cabin in northern British Columbia.
J.B. MACKINNON is the author of the acclaimed Dead Man in Paradise, which won the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction. He is the winner of three national magazine awards as a freelance writer, and is a former senior editor at Adbusters. He lives with his co-author in Vancouver.
