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Chickens roaming Harlem (City Room NYT)
Local buying in Annalpolis (Home Town Annapolis)
A locavore in Charlotte gets profiled (Myrtle Beach Online)
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For the Cincinnati locavores out there – I would enjoy some 100 percent local Cincinnati style chili. Do it! (Cincy Locavore)
Urban agriculture and malaria (City Farmer)
Local wine and CSAs (Gothamist)
by: Matthew P. Moll
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For one year, Leda Meredith – dancer, botanist, author, Brooklyn dweller – adhered to a strict diet. Not a diet to eliminate carbs or to indulge in the newest weight loss fad, but a diet that would sanctify her as an official “locavore.” Everything she ate must have been grown within 250 miles of her Park Slope home in Brooklyn.
Food security, environmental activism and farmer’s rights all motivated her new lifestyle, but she also adopted the locavore diet because, as she says, local food just tastes better and forced her to diversify her cooking.
“This was a chance to get creative in the kitchen and try new things,” Meredith said.
The diet required more planning and preparation than her previous nutritional regimen, also drawn from farmer’s markets and her own Brooklyn garden plot. The geographic restriction imposed by her new diet created unforeseen complications.
