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    Growing Chefs is a program that "gets kids excited about good, healthy food". Specifically also how to grow it and cook it.

    I am participating in their Going Local! Local Food Challenge. This means that I'll be eating local this week. I tend to do this in any case, but I'm very specifically going to be keeping track of my buying and eating habits, which is the whole point: to raise awareness of where your food is from and who makes it.

    I've actually got a donation page up where you can help to support Growing Chefs. In return, I'm going to document what I eat, where I buy it, and the occasional recipe. The Growing Chefs crew recommends the 100 Mile Diet as a starting point, but I find that too unrealistic: it's actually hard enough to just look for BC products, never mind 100 miles.

    Of course, Foodtree is another organization I've spent time supporting, and their iPhone app is meant to help solve the problem of knowing more about your food. The team is also participating in this Local Food Challenge Week - check the Foodtree blog for some great resources.


    You can follow along on my Twitter account where I'm using an #eatlocal hashtag, and this blog post is where I'm continuing to add to the gallery of food throughout the week.

    Donate to my Eating Local pledge »

    → 11:41 AM, Aug 15   •  Personal, Foodtree, #eatlocal, Growing Chefs, eating, local, Blog
  • "It is weird to know where your food comes from" /via @tonynicalo

    The only peace of mind that exists in our current food system seems a kind of Orwellian trick- it is weird to know where your food comes from. By making it normal to not know, you don’t have to worry about it too much. We are beginning to see cracks in the sarcophagus with the occasional beef or peanut butter recall, the fear of food from China and the rise of local food on the fringes. But it is still mainly out of sight out of mind. Foodtree envisions a solution to the ills of our runaway food system by eliminating information asymmetry. It only takes a couple of times for you to be able to choose something you know the provenance of to remind you that it is actually bizarre to NOT know the source of your food.
    via ceo.foodtree.com

    It's great to be working with Tony and the rest of the Foodtree team on this mission.

    While we joke about meeting the chicken that we're going to eat or joke about being "those people" that ask where stuff is from - it's important.

    If you want to hear more from Tony, he's going to be speaking at the Raincity Chronicles this Wednesday - tickets at Firehall Arts Centre.

    → 7:56 AM, May 9   •  Personal, Food, Foodtree, Raincity Chronicles, Blog
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