The 100 Mile Thanksgiving.
Good morning,
The first Thanksgiving in 1621 was when English settlers and
their new Native American neighbors gathered to feast on the
fruits of their first harvest in the New World.
Nearly 400 years later, Thanksgiving is a far cry from the
days of farming, hunting and gathering in the New England
wilderness. Today’s feast is likely to have traveled an es-
timated 1,500 to 2,500 miles from farm to plate, 25 percent
farther than in 1980.
While it is unrealistic (more likely impossible) to harvest
and gather our food like the pilgrims did, do our meals
really need to travel two thousand miles to our dinner tables?
Scroll down for some more ideas.
Thanks for reading,
Your Living Green editor
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Thanksgiving presents the perfect opportunity to get back
in touch with our neighbors — the family farms — and
regain sight of where our food comes from, by creating a
meal from local ingredients.
All those classic Thanksgiving favorites — sweet potatoes,
mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing, apple or pumpkin pie,
apple cider and a green vegetable — are available right
up until the holiday, from farms within 100 miles of most
cities.
And not only will you be saving the environment all of those
miles transporting your meal, you will also be supporting
your local economy and not sending your dollars to Florida,
California or even South America (unless you live in Florida,
California or South America).
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