tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post5832956434937187091..comments2024-03-27T07:18:39.229-05:00Comments on In Medias Res: Our Two Localist ResolutionsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-3468350956962867762007-03-26T17:06:00.000-05:002007-03-26T17:06:00.000-05:00We're enjoying the local farmer's market. Being i...We're enjoying the local farmer's market. Being in a Mennonite area of Kentucky helps. <BR/><BR/>For the non-food purchases, I'm getting good results with our local freecycle group ( freecycle.org ).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-2268689591489304792007-03-05T00:04:00.000-06:002007-03-05T00:04:00.000-06:00Yeah, I don't know much about the farming practice...Yeah, I don't know much about the farming practices around Wichita, but I can't imagine it would be easy. I've actually been giving some thought to creating my own variant of the 100 mile diet, in which I indulge my localist tendencies (as much local food as possible) with my cosmopolitan ones (make a point to learn a great deal more about cooking more globally--thai and malaysian cooking classes, actually go beyond the handful of recipies I'm comfortable with in my Indian and Italian cookbooks, etc). Thus, the information/technique/practices would be both global and local, but the consumption would be almost entirely local, and once I'm more familiar with the cooking techniques of more cuisines, I could try to adapt them more and more to the food that's locally available.<BR/><BR/>To do this as seriously as I'd like would require more rigor and discipline than I evidently have, but it's fun to think about, and I've actually made a few steps in that direction.David Watkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14954313265808615991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-18346071150845124282007-03-04T21:32:00.000-06:002007-03-04T21:32:00.000-06:00Your thoughts are on-point, David. The difficultly...Your thoughts are on-point, David. The difficultly we will have with living the 100-mile diet is directly related to the fact that we don't live in either a cosmopolitan center of trade like Seattle or Vancouver, or in a place like Vermont which still has a lot of local economies intact. In some ways, living in accordance with an agrarian/producerist ethos in America today is probably often <I>easier</I> in metropolitan areas, given that so many rural areas, unlike Vermont, haven't managed to preserve much local ownership or diversity in production.Russell Arben Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03366800726360134194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7907752.post-46764898437458923112007-03-04T13:38:00.000-06:002007-03-04T13:38:00.000-06:00Bill McKibben gave a talk at UW last year, and he ...Bill McKibben gave a talk at UW last year, and he had nothing but good things to say about his year on the 100 mile diet. Of course, he lives in Vermont, the land of a thousand organic farms...<BR/><BR/>I flirt with the idea on Sundays at the farmers Market, and Seattle is certainly a good place to do it.David Watkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14954313265808615991noreply@blogger.com