Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet
By Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon

Eating a truly local diet for a year poses some tricky questions.

It's strawberry season. James and I are at the Ellis Farms u-pick on Delta's Westham Island, crouching between long rows of the bunchy green plants, plucking the big berries and dropping them gently into small buckets. We imagine their future with cream and in pies. I lick the sweet red juice from my fingers. "If I make jam we can have strawberries all year," I say. James asks with what, exactly, I plan to make the jam? Sugar? One of the planet's most exploitative products, shipped in from thousands of kilometres away? "But what," I reply, "will we
eat all winter?"

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Originally appeared in June 2005 in TheTyee.ca.
Used with permission of the authors.

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