- Wondering “How local is local?” – when people are shopping “local”, is it based on a 10/20/50/100 mile radius or state/county boundaries? #
|
|||||
Sign up for the FFF Newsletter |
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-172 comments to Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-17Leave a Reply |
||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Franciscan Family Farms, Chaffee, MO - All Rights Reserved
|
|||||
We are joining a farm share for the summer, in which local produce comes from 75 miles away. I feel that is pretty “local” for a large city with several rings of suburbs.
In St. Louis, a restaurant that uses “local” sourcing like Riddle’s Penultimate ships in food from all over Missouri and southern Illinois, and that can be hundreds of miles. I am okay with that, too.
What have we learned here? Perhaps “local” food is only food transported via non-traditional, non-grocery-store networks (food that is not from California and abroad)?
Jonny – I think your definition makes a lot of sense. It is clear that “local” is a nebulous term, and means different things to different people.
I some responses on Twitter that were much more narrow than your definition – something along the lines of “from my neighboring towns”.
The interesting thing is that there really aren’t any standards yet around the term… sellers can get in trouble for falsely stating that their products are “natural” or “organic”, but there is nothing to bar them from claiming “local”.