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100 & 250 mile radius around SLC.
This year's Salt Lake Eat Local Challenge began August 28, 2010! Join the celebration of local healthy choices by eating food that is produced no more than 250 miles from your home. Learn how others have participated so you can chart a course that will work for you. You can find food sources, events, books, and articles below.
Eat Local Challenge and Related Events
Social Soup
Finding Healthy Food in the City for All Economic Groups
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
University of Utah, Goodwill Humanitarian Building, Room 155
Often local food is equated with foodies who are not concerned with budgeting their food dollars, but local food can be affordable. This session, featuring speakers from Wasatch Community Gardens, People's Market, and Utah Community Supported Agriculture in Utah, focuses on finding healthy and affordable food in our city. Come with your questions and leave with useful information.
This series also provides free, vegetarian soup featuring local ingredients. The event itself is also free and open to the public.
People's Market 5th Annual Seed Swap
Saturday, January 29th, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Mountain Valley Seed Warehouse
455 West 1700 South, SLC
Finding Healthy Food in the City for All Economic Groups
Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
University of Utah, Goodwill Humanitarian Building, Room 155
Often local food is equated with foodies who are not concerned with budgeting their food dollars, but local food can be affordable. This session, featuring speakers from Wasatch Community Gardens, People's Market, and Utah Community Supported Agriculture in Utah, focuses on finding healthy and affordable food in our city. Come with your questions and leave with useful information.
This series also provides free, vegetarian soup featuring local ingredients. The event itself is also free and open to the public.
People's Market 5th Annual Seed Swap
Saturday, January 29th, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Mountain Valley Seed Warehouse
455 West 1700 South, SLC
1. Gather your leftover vegetable & flower seeds from last year.
2. Have no seeds? Come anyway and we’ll give you some to start.
3. Bring your friends to the Seed Swap.
4. Trade or donate your seeds with local garden enthusiasts & farmers.
5. Use your new seeds to start or expand your space with variety.
Also accepting non-perishable donations for local food banks.
About the Challenge
Developing a greater awareness about our food—that’s what the Eat Local Challenge is about. While the “standard” Challenge is described as consuming only foods from within a 250 mile radius for a whole month, whatever makes this experience fun and educational (and a challenge to you) is valid.
Is this your first year for the whole family? Consider doing one week of completely local. Are you feeling really strapped for time and realizing that there are really no ready-made meals available locally? Try choosing a couple of food groups such as produce and meats and just be true to those. (You’ll save time on not having to make pasta or bread.)
However you challenge yourself this year—have fun and enjoy learning about your food consumption!
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2 comments:
Hi All,
I've been doing some checking around for some coffee substitutes and haven't found anything great but there are some alternatives. Dandilion root and chicory were mentioned at the planning party and they've been suggested by other folks I've asked. Merry Lycett Harrison of Mill Creek Herbs (millcreekherbs.com) sells a nutritional tea made of dandilion, oat straw and nettles that "tastes good and is good for you"; perhaps the extra nutritional value will make you feel so good you won't need caffiene! She and others have also suggested Mormon tea, Merry says our local species don't have the large amount of ephedrine in them like the Oriental species do. "Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West" by Michael Moore has a good description of the plant and how to dry the plant and prepare the tea. He does caution that if you're buying the tea commercially to be sure that you're purchasing our local species, often the Oriental species, with higher ephedrine content, are sold commercially as "Mormon tea".
I'll continue to look for good local sources of these substitues. If you know of a source or a lead that I can help track down please post it!
Patty
While this idea does not include caffeine, it may be a fine substitute for your morning coffee. Try making a mint tea from dried mint leaves (use a tea ball to steep the tea) and add cream or milk.
I can't take credit for this. I learned it from Andrea.
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