Purpose

I would like to eat more local foods from Virginia, both to promote local farmers and to encourage myself to eat more in-season produce.  I have a theory that the ready availability year round of all types of food contributes to America's overeating problem.  If we ate what was in season, we would grow weary of it sooner and be less likely to eat to excess.

Perversely, living in a rural area makes it difficult for me to visit large farmers markets, although I do drive past a farm stand on my daily commute.  I am fortunate to have access to a grocery service called Relay, which carries a lot of local items.  I can limit my search to local items, order them ahead of time, and pick them up easily after work.  My goal for 2016 is to order local food from Relay at least once a month, focusing especially on produce when possible.  I hope this will encourage me to eat more vegetables and make me more aware of what's in season.  Later in the year, I will probably have some produce from my own garden and perhaps seek out other sources of local produce.

I will try blogging about this project, although there might not be a lot of pretty pictures.  The blog title is an overstatement, since I'm not attempting to eat entirely or mostly local this year as in the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.  Kingsolver's project is inspiring but not feasible with my current lifestyle.  Still, perhaps I'll learn some things, and perhaps others will gain ideas from my experiences.