DH and I have taken on the challange of eating one meal per week of made totally of local food, the basic rule is all parts of the meal must be grown/produced from within a 150 miles of where you are sitting down to eat.

Now lots of us eat very well during the farmer’s market season, this challange is to get us to figure out how to eat as well during the dark days of winter.. You can decide at the beginning what if any exceptions you will allow.

So I have been putting my thinking cap on and digging in my different food area and also did a little check online and even called a farm down the road (as I know he raised human grade barley this year) and called another friend to trade a little lamb for some of his handpicked local wild rice.

So I think the two exceptions I will put into place will be Salt, and Olive Oil, I believe I have tracked down a place to get my wheat at that is local, but I need to make sure that what they are grinding is in fact locally grown within my limits.

 The extra rules I am putting on myself is, one part of each meal needs to be a zero mile part so from the farm itself, this can include things we have raised or processed that was raised on the farm, and includes any and all wild foods as well.

I’m excited to say that my momma is going to join in the fun, she has warned that the meals will be “farm” meals, LOL, I will see how she does, I think it might be a little harder then she thinks to do.. but will post her info as its provided to me.