Local Food Week

July 1, 2010

Whitney

I know you’re all thinking to yourselves ‘I thought this was a local food YEAR not week’. As it turns out Virginia in January is not the best place and time to be eating local produce so for a while we were eating asparagus from Peru and bell peppers from California. Now that we’re well into the summer it’s possible to get lots of vegetables (and some fruit) from some combination of our garden, our CSA and farmers markets so we decided to challenge ourselves this week to only buy produce locally. (more…)