Locavores and Lazy Locavores
Quick… what word did the New Oxford American Dictionary deem word of the year for 2007…
A locavore is one who eats locally grown food. Local often defined as grown within 100 miles.
So Carnivore – meat eating.
Vegetarian – vegetable (and fruit eating)… shouldn’t it be a Vegavore?
Locavore – engages in the sustainable practice of eating food grown or produced within 100 miles.
It’s officially a trendy thing now so reports The New York Times.
There are do-it-yourself locavores – people that grow most of their own food. Such as chronicled by Barbara Kingsolver in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
People that mostly seek out food produced within the 100-mile radius such as Alissa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon, The 100-Mile Diet.
And then there are people that have staff to take care of it… such as folks that have a private chef to do the foraging, or folks that hire someone to come into their backyard, create a vegetable garden, maintain it, and leave the harvest on their back porch.
It’s all good… and good for you.
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