http://www.sustainabletable.org/home/ Very cool site if one is interested in keeping up with local markets instead of your grocery store. No telling where that out of season (tasteless) apple came from but you know it isn't from here! I quit eating foods out of sinc a couple of years back. To me its more fun waiting for the season to roll around than to take a chance with foriegn foods that should be going to the starving people Big Ag has shipped here. Right now, cherries (highly overpriced in the markets) are in season. Check out local growers and cut that middle man out. As always too, farmers markets are great places to check out what others are growning and see if you can grow it too! Think global; Act local; Buy local. urby :sunglasse
That site looks great. Thanks for sharing! This is something I've been struggling with. It can be so expensive and difficult to find good stuff in the urban confines of the big city. There are specialty stores and what not, but I'm having a hard enough time just doing my regular shopping. It takes serious effort and time to keep a pure diet. I'm long overdue for this kind of lifestyle adjustment.
Yeah i think its better for you to do that. aparently a lot of fruit and veg here, especially the cheaper stuff comes from asian countries where the laws against pesticides are totally different from here. like, chemicals that have been illegal in australia for years are still used there. so theyre actually reallllly bad for you. its scary to think about it!
Agreed. It can be difficult to find places were local fruits are availible year round. This is why I encourage those of you whom do not travel the roads to grow what you can in your little urban spot. Better still start or find a community garden-if you can do so in an ethinc part of town, you'd be surprised how many of the locals there fresh from their homeland would welcome growning their own foods. Saves a bit of money especially if you have particular tastes. Failing that, do a google on "local farmers market your state" and you'll be surprised what you come up with. For folks who travel they should already know how to find/barter/wild craft their own local food stuff. If not I would push for taking a wild foods or food gathering kind of class so you know what you're looking at and what/how to eat it. Good luck everyone.
wanted to learn to eat by the seasons...I think that it would be much better enviromentlaly and also so much healthier... How does one eat during the winter months though is my question...it would be so cool if there were cookbooks out there for eating by the seasons! We could start by sharing here and I would be more than willing to create a cookbook for 'Eating through the Seasons"
I read a great book called One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka that covered the importance of eating with the seasons. The book is about farming naturally, even beyond organic farming. Nature naturally grows plants. I would recommend it to anyone interested in trully interested in ecology, sustainability, organic gardening/farming, or permaculture.
Yeah, I know this is a very old thread, but it's worth continuing. Where I live now there is very, very little farming (Virginia coal country), except for private gardens and little of it is for sale. Last year, our first year back home again after 11 years in Tennessee, I raised a few plants by "pothole" gardening. Last fall I laid down a sheet composted garden, and I'm sprouting seeds right now for planting in early May. If you'd like more info on keeping your diet in sync with your location and the seasons, I'd suggest an internet search on "macrobiotics" and "taoist diet". Bear in mind that a lot of the sourch info will be oriented toward Asian foodstuffs, but you can get the general idea. (sea vegetables don't seem to grow very well in the Appalachians).
If you had ever grown up on a farm or in a farming community, this wouldn't be something you would have to research. It goes with the changing of the seasons and the growing of the crops. You can't grown tomatos in the winter, and winter squash and peas don't grow around here in the summer. And those that are providing and preparing food for their families realized this and either you can prepare for the winter by canning or live without. But with todays global market you can get anything almost anytime. But hell I won't buy peaches during winter...I know what they taste like. And fresh peas you can't find them here after May. I still live with the seasons and the sun.
