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Module 3 Food Freedom: The Easy Way to CutDangerous Industrialized Food From The Menu

The Freedom Blueprints

By John Hoffman

Module #3 part A

Food Freedom

- The Easy Way to Cut Dangerous

Industrialized Food from the Menu-


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SQUARE-FOOT GARDENING THE BASICS

Gardening stops being a chore for more and more of us. A while ago it was seen as a

hobby only by the high classes. To the western culture though, gardening was mostly reserved

to peasants and later on farmers. The 20th century seemed to be one of leisure and mass

production. But from scarce, the number of those who nowadays want to grow their ownvegetables or fruits becomes larger.

People do not have the same trust in the food industry now that all those GMO scandals

going on. All of us that actually grew up, or have relatives in the countryside see or have seen

until recently, gardening as planting seeds on large plots. The plot had to be plowed and raked.

Then it was planted with long, widely-space rows. This sort of gardening meant a lot of

weeding and hoeing and few of us remember these chores as truly pleasant activities.

New types of gardening have been developed during the last decades using but the

simplest or the basic activities and tools required in gardening. Experienced gardeners,

horticulturists and botanists changed their point of interest towards the small farmer, the hobby

farmer, the lost son, this city-boy that returns to nature in order to grow his/her own veggies.

Most of these people do not have the required amount of land to organize what we refer as a

classical vegetable garden. Nor do they want the drudgery that comes along with it.

The square-foot gardening concept was born in this context. Its philosophy is simple:build a raised bed (like the ones we have shown you how to build in the previous chapter),

divide the space into sections of one square-foot each, and then plant in just the amount of

space plants need to develop.

There are many advantages to this way of gardening. These advantages include:


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reduced workload, less watering, easy weeding, easy access to your crops.

This is actually nothing more than a great way to learn to grow some of your own food!

The raised bed we have shown you how to build are rather sophisticated ones. Even

though you might not be a repairperson, you can build a simpler one in just a few hours. All

you need are a few boards; four of them for each bed. Just follow the instructions bellow. Do

not use pressure-treated lumber! It has arsenic and other toxins in it.

Most commonly, raised beds come in sizes of twelve feet long, four feet wide, and

twelve inches tall. One square foot garden occupies a surface of 16 sq ft (1.5 sq meters). It holds

an average of 130 plants and produces enough for one grownup. Thus, a family of four can have

fresh greens from only 64 sq ft of growing space (6 sq meters). Avoid using creosote to weather

proof the bed box because it is a plant poison. Just paint or spray them with vegetable oil or

linseed oil. Some linseed oil has toxic preservatives added, but you should check the labels to

the products you buy, do you not?

After all of this, comes the digging. We will not go through that again, so we will just

say that after you will move the frames into place, leveled them an filled them with rich


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mixtures, the new element in the picture, is the grid. You will need to create a grid over each bed

using tacks and twine. If you do not have the time or space to construct raised beds, consider

starting a container garden.

A.How to build your own square foot garden

Square foot gardens are raised bed or container gardens. What differentiates them from

the others is, in fact, just their sizes. We have shown above that a square foot garden unit

occupies a surface of 16 sq ft.

Well, the original square foot unit is 4 by 4 feet (16 sq ft), but many gardeners have

found this square block unwieldy so they switched to 3 by 3 feet beds instead. Indeed, these

work well and this dimensions have started being used by schools that use the square foot

garden system.

Another particularity that needs to be taken under consideration is the distribution of

the units width and length. Experts recommend long beds: units consisting of two parallelbeds, each 2 feet wide and 8 feet long, with a minimum 15 inch-wide path between and around

them. This is enough for two people, or if you want more or there are three of you, make two

units with 6 feet-long beds instead of 8feet, or two units with 8 feet-long beds. The raised beds

should face the Sun (towards South in the Northern Hemisphere and towards North in the

Southern Hemisphere).

You can use whatever you want as trellises from wires running from an electrical pipe

to the other to fishing wire running from a bamboo tube to the other. The standard height for

such supports is 6 feet, but makes them as high as 10 since sometimes plants grow taller than

expected.

In addition, if you live in the city and have no garden at all, you can simply make one on the

roof or in the balcony. All you need is to consider these facts and, of course, the local legislation

regarding home gardening. Depending on the soil, the water content etcetera, a standard square


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foot unit 12 inches deep will weigh somewhere around 650 pounds (300 kg), or 40 pounds per

square foot (200 kg per sq meter).

These are the ten acknowledged steps of square-foot gardening:

1. Arrange your garden in squares of 4 by 4 (or 3 by 3), not rows.2. The boxes you build need to hold the new soil mix above ground.3. The boxes need to be spaced 3 apart to form the walking aisles.4. The boxes need to be filled with:

a. 1/3 blended compost,b. 1/3 peat mossc. 1/3 coarse vermiculite. (Mels special soil mix)

5. The square foot grid you make needs to be permanent.6. Never walk on your growing soil. Tend your garden from the aisles.7. Plant a different flower, vegetable, or herb crop in each square foot, using 1, 4, 9, or

16 plants per square foot.8. Conserve the seeds and plant only 2 or 3 seeds per hole. Place transplants in a slight

saucer-shaped depression, to better collect water.9. Use sun-warmed water and water by hand from a bucket.10.After harvesting, add compost and replant with a new and different crop.

FIVE TOP BUG REPELLENTS RECIPES

(CHEMICAL FREE!)

Insects can ruin that perfect picnic you have been planning for the week or that perfect

crop you have been tending for up to nine months. You avoid using chemical sprays because of

the effects they might have on your body or the environment so what can you do? Well, thereare several ways to keep bugs away without toxic chemicals. With the examples you will see

bellow hopefully you will understand that we actually do not need to use sprays and harmful

chemicals to keep pests away. There are plenty of natural, chemical free solutions, you can use

to control the insects that haunt or hunt us during the wonderful summer evenings or days.


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1. The Pepper Spray is something that works best on small pests, such as ants. This is

what you need and how you can cook your own pepper spray.

Step 1: Boil 3 cups of water

Step 2: Add a half (1/2) or two thirds (2/3) of a cup of chopped/powder of hot

pepper.

Step 3: Sieve the soup so all the pepper parts are removed.

Step 4: Put the juice into a squirt bottle

Step 5: Use when necessary and DO NOT spray directly on the foliage

2. The Minty Soap Spray is a spray that also works great on ants.

All you have to do is to mix 2 tbsp of Dr. Bonners mint soap with a gallon of

water, then put it into a squirt bottle, and try to spray the ants directly. This

recipe also works as a ward against other insects that might try to eat the leaves,


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but only if you spray the juice directly on the plant. CAREFUL not to use to

much of it on your plant or you will BURN it!

3. You can also use a Pure Vanilla Extract to keep a lot of insects AWAY FROM YOU

when you go hiking or fishing or so.

All you have to do is to dab a little vanilla extract on your wrists, neck and

behind the ears, and pests will stay away because many insects hate the smell of

vanilla. If you also hate it, it is best to forget this tip.

4. The Chemical-Free Bug-off Mist is a substance you can use against miscellaneous

types of bugs.

In order to obtain this mixture you must put together in a squirt bottle witch

hazel with a few drops of tea-tree oil, lavender oil, or peppermint. It also works

best to keep insects away from you if you mist your body with it in a lightly way.

If you add one of those essential oils to an unscented organic lotion for a bug

repelling moisturizer you will get a similar effect.

5. The Lavender does miracles against Mosquitoes!

You can stop the bites by rubbing a lavender flower behind your ears, wrists and

neck. You will also smell wonderful and those damn mosquitoes will stay away.

LUNAR GARDENING


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This must seem far-fetched but the people that tried it and actually confirmed it works

are not just a few. Indeed, plants seem to have their own zodiac signs, according to which they

grow and develop. Planting gardens during certain phases of the Moon may increase the

chances of fortunate growth.

Source: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/download/Coll_Athabasca/Unit4-

Lesson3PhasesoftheMoon/phasesMoon2.jpg

The gardening techniques are the same as the ones described in the previous chapters,

so we will pass this lesson and get to the main thing: what, in fact, is Lunar Gardening. Well,

first thing you need to know is that we are not the ones who invented it. It is around for

centuries and there are more modern ideas about this technique than just mixed contemporary

concepts on the subjects of gardening and astrology.

The Moons cycle (see picture) starts with the New Moon (A stage), which grows to a

Full Moon (E stage). Afterwards, it decreases until it seems to have disappeared, but another

New Moon arises. Halfway between the New and the Full Moon we have the First Quarter andthe Last Quarter.

1. The First Quarter is the best period to grow vegetables. If you happen to plant at thistime, we recommended you choose crops that grow their results outside of the plant:


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broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, asparagus, spinach, cucumbers (even if different, thetime is right for them) etc.

2. During the Second Quarter is the best time to plant annuals that grow theirharvested parts above the ground: vines, pulses, beans, peas, onions, peppers,cereals, tomatoes and grains.

3. Third Quarter is best for planting bulb and root crops: trees, shrubs, bushes, some ofthe berry plants, grapes, potatoes, onion sets, radishes, turnips and carrots.

4. The energy of the Moon is now waning, during the Last Quarter; This fourth one haslittle influence until the next New Moon and the best thing to plant is wellnothing. This is the time you should start thinking about digging, weeding, burninggarden waste. Keep the ashes to use, as they may prove useful when you need tomake a fertile mixed soil.

More improvements can be made to the way you garden if you adhere to the

astrological signs as the Moon passes through each of them.

SELF SUFFICIENCY OUT OF HOME GARDENING

There are a lot of tips and tricks out there that show you how to make thousands of

dollars over night out of gardening. Well, there is one thing you should know from the start

about gardening: plants do not grow over night. You need to thoroughly follow through the

growing process and only afterwards gather the fruit of success. But most of the millionaires

out there did not get that far because of their talent in gardening. Farming is more about

passion and living a healthier life. And when it comes to money, indeed, it can at least turnyou into a self sufficient person.

A.A way to make some savings


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Most popular square foot gardening methods give fantastic results! But some of them

have a couple or so drawbacks that other gardeners managed to solve. Basically all references

lead to the same thing. It is also up to you how you manage your costs. The only investmentyou should make, if you manage to gather all materials from around your house, is the right

fertilizer. But you can make your own, using the methods shown above.

If you dont plan to make a business out of raised bed gardening, than at least you can

make some savings. If you ever happen to calculate your grocery bill, you will find out that it is

about $3,500 a year. This amount you can save simply by preserving the output of our 640

square feet of raised beds.

If you live in the city, or you do not have the right tools, it might cost you about $200 to

build a raised bed. And if you did them as we showed you, they should last, in normal

conditions, 8 to 10 years. Your expenses will vary by location and choice of materials. And how

long they last will also vary, depending on how you care them. If you ever think of selling what

you produce on your raised bed farm, well, its best not to, unless you have a large plot.

If you pay about $20 per bed during a year and 80 (horizontal) square feet per bed, you

will find an amortized cost of about 25 cents per square foot, which is a reasonable expense for

organic produce tended while standing. But at an average garden there is an additional 160

square feet of trellis space per bed so the amortized cost per square foot of growing surface is

only about 3 cents per year.

If you research the market a bit you will find out that by canning the food you add about

10 cents per quart while your total expense for the garden for a year come out to less than $50

for a yield of at least $3,500. And this investment return. Every year. If you have larger surfaces

of ground, you can even try selling what you produce. Some may say you do this because youdont have money to buy food. If this would be true, it would not be a thing to be ashamed of.

But it is not true. One thing is, though: you found out a better way to use your money than

spend it on things you can provide yourself.


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B. A way to make some profit

During the following chapter, we will guide you through becoming self-sufficient on asingle acre of ground. You can also get yields of at least $3,500 on yearly expenses of just $50! It

is very simple and less time-consuming than just about any kind of gardening). Nevertheless, at

first you need to consider carefully the following:

your family size; the standard of living expected; the debt load you expect the garden to carry. A home mortgage plus car and credit

card payments of $3,000 per month requires a much greater effort to cover than ifyou are debt-free.

You also need to consider warm climates may require lots of water and even a little

shade at the hottest times, while cold climates often require more greenhouse seedling

production and the covering of garden crops in spring and fall to extend the growing season.

Plants are not like instant soup. There is commitment involved with market gardening;

you need to know this from the start. If you need motivation, try to picture the ways our

grandparents grew gardens: they worked every day of their lives weed, water, and care for

their plants. There will be less time available for vacations during the growing season, since a

market garden requires your daily attention.


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(source: http://www.raw-food-health.net/images/RaisedBedGardenFarm.jpg)

A century ago, most growers used manure and it was what most farmers used, but

today you will have to face a competition that includes hydroponics growers with over

$1,000,000 per acre in buildings and equipment and growing 330 tons of tomatoes per acre each

year!

Tips for Getting Started

1. Think small at first! Do not get over excited and plant more than you can care forproperly.

2. Keep in mind that you will sell to:a. wholesalersb. small grocery stores,c. restaurants,d. farmers' market,e. roadside standf. home delivery.

3. Research what vegetables you should grow by finding out:a. you can grow readily,b. sell well, and


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c. at a good price.4. Build proper facilities including

a. a seedling greenhouse with tables,b. T-Frames for growing verticallyc. a good watering system.5. Hire an accountant and also set up an accounting system, including account names

and numbers for every category of asset, liability, equity, income, and expense.6. Build up your stock of tools, seeds and fertilizers. Provide for pest and disease

control.

Include all those costs (labor also), in figuring your market prices and your expected net

return. Moreover, remember that you are not the first one to do this job. There are already

others, may be even more experienced than you are, doing the same thing you do. You may

have to beat them to the costumer. However, by growing more, bigger, fresher, tastier, and

healthier produce than others, you will develop a loyal customer base, and then you can adjustyour prices as needed. Sounds easy and you think it is not that easy. Well, it never truly is easy

at the beginning. Only the strong ones make it to the end.

We will try to make your race even simpler by helping you choose what to grow, based

on the products prices, growth time and so on. In fact, these criteria help you choose what to

grow:

the ease of growing the cost and risk of loss the value of the crop.

Try to keep informed what sort of vegetables do the restaurants you want to sell to use

and how much of it. Try to stay away, as much as possible, from the single crop varieties since

multi-crops are more profitable. Depending on your costumer, you might want to focus on

either quick-growing crops or slow-growing ones.

RAISING POULTRY: SOME ADVICES


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It is easy to raise poultry. Some say it is the easiest. And theyre good to have around

since even a small flock of laying hens will keep the family supplied with the best eggs theyve

ever eaten for much of the year.

The birds are best kept on a pasture during the green season and if you can only keep

them in a hen house, it is best bringing fresh-cut green forage every day for them to eat and

practice. Grass grains and crucifers are good forage for your flock. Mostly, chicken eat

everything that is plant and not poisonous. If there is no greenery in winter where you live, just

sprout grains and other seeds for them (as you do to the pigeons in the park). Dont overfeed

them, since even a small amount will boost not only the vitamins and minerals they are getting,

but the enzymes as well.

It is best not to keep them on concrete or other rough surfaces. In the absence of a living

sod to digest the manure, as happens on pasture, they accumulate on the site, with the

potential to transmit pathogens and even pollute groundwater when it rains. If your only

option for releasing your flock from the hen house is a chicken run, I recommend you make a

covered run and utilize a sand litter system: build under the chicken run a raised bet of sandand isolate it with plastic material. That will avoid the negative effects of manure buildup and

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Even if you have the space to keep the chicken on a pasture, it is best you use an electric

net fence; it allows the birds to free-range, but within the limits and it protects them from

anything on the ground with a nervous system.

You can build your own fence, but it is best to get advice from an electrician. The initial

investment in the netting and the fence charger is significant but it will pay off and last for years

if you take good care of it. Remember to keep the fence line mowed; as grass grows over the

bottom charged wire, the charge in the net begins to ground out and the system may become

pointless. Nothing more than a wire fence between your chicks and the predator.

CONCLUSION

If you ever try to move to the countryside and plan to live freely, no system strings attached,

there are some things you need to consider. First, you will need any size yard, from small to

XXL, and adjust what you are able to do with it. But maybe the most important thing you will

need is determination and a hard work.

1. The first step in beginning a self sufficient lifestyle is organizing a garden. You need toarrange a kitchen garden according to your space and you may want to start small.When you start planting include veggies that your family regularly eats and thatrecommended to the soil specifications and climate of your zone.

2. After finishing the first step the garden - you will need to learn how to preserve sincethere is no point in having a large country garden if you forget all about it the next dayand it does not live to the harvest day. Inform yourself about the ways that eachvegetable keeps best and when D-Day comes harvest the seeds also.

3. There is nothing more delicious than berries or other wild fruit trees or bushes. Thiswould be step four of your adventure. Do not cut them down in any way. Use them asparts of your garden. If you have none in your garden, learn how to plant some. See ifneighbors have some that they are not using or have a lot of extra of.


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Usually people can find a lot of wild berries, cherries, plums and apples or find them

growing nearby. This will give you the supply for jams, jellies and juices as well as

dehydrated fruit and frozen fruit to use throughout the winter. Your children will

probably love them. Just make sure you have permission to gather the fruit if it is on

someone else's land.

4. This is when animals com into play. Do not get over excited and start small. Chickenswould be a good idea. Use the tips and tricks presented in the chapters above.Depending on your tastes and preferences, you can raise laying chickens for their eggsor chickens to eat. But until you get along with countryside life avoid killing youranimals. You will probably not be able to prepare them properly. It might turn difficultto learn how to prepare your chickens. Read some books about how to do it.

5. First chicken, then pigs. It would be a good idea, after you have settled and startedfeeling at home in your new property, to step up and raise some hogs. They are notdifficult to care for, but they do smell bad, so try not to build their shelter between thedirection the wind blows and your house. It is best to keep them as far from your homeas possible. Also, if you are uncomfortable with the fall slaughter you might want tocontact someone who does that for you for a fee a professional butcher.

There are many packinghouses that will do this for you or you. You might even have

some neighbors that are planning on slaughtering their own and would add yours to

their work. Then all you would need to do is "work the meat": cut and package it forfreezer storage or canning. That part is usually pretty satisfying because when you pull a

pack of meat out of the freezer you know that you did it yourself. A hog will usually

feed a family for almost a year.

6. So if you managed with hogs, why not with goats, also. You can raise them for milk andcheese. As a bonus, did you know that they are great for keeping brush cleared off?Experts advice: at first, try goat milk and cheese before you buy goats. You might notlike the stuff. Indeed, it is easier to raise a milking goat than a cow. But its milk has an

unfamiliar taste.

7. So even if you decide to or not to purchase a goat, if you have completed all or most ofthe steps above, the one animal you need to fill up your portfolio is the cow. Try tobuy a milking cow that gives milk twice a day. With the milk you can make cheeses,sour cream, buttermilk, yogurt and you can also want to raise a steer.


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Later on, these bulls will be used for eating. Like a hog, a steers meet will feed a family

for close to a year. They do need more room and more care than goats, but will make an

excellent choice if you have tasted goat milk and did not find it tasty. Cattle require

more experience though, so it is best to let a year or to pass and gather some experience

before jumping into this adventure and get more familiar with your land and raising

livestock.

8. Honey bees can be another addition to your farm, if you have no fear of them. This mayturn out to be more than just a chore. Bees would provide yearly honey to use forsweetening in recipes. Inform yourself thoroughly before purchasing bees. Their honeytastes differently, according to the type of pollen they are eating. Place their hives closeto your orchard.

Ever thought about having your own garden but not having enough time or space for

one? Well, you might try some of the following:

1. Any space you have available is precious space; plant in containers on your porch,patio, or window.2. Any resources you have (even recycled stuff) can be used to make containers. Youcan also go to thrift stores and look for old pots.

3. Do not get cheap on your plants and share them! If you dont have the space, afriend of yours might have it. Look for a community garden that will give you adesignated spot or plot to garden.

4. Play around with your imagination and make your own wonderland; find a smallsecret place to garden at a local park.

5. Plants do not get jealous! Volunteer to work your neighbors garden in exchange forhalf the produce if he/she is too old or because of any other reason cannot gardenanymore.

6. If you cannot find any way to garden then support local farmers or gardeners. Buyfrom local farms directly!

This last point we want to insist on a little bit more before we let you put in practice

what you have learned during the last few chapters. So, the main message at point 6 was Buy

from local farms directly!. Why is this important? Well, honestly it is not important at all if you

do not see it as such. But we strongly recommend you to go local, and bellow are the reasons


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why. In the attached picture, you can see the factors you need to regard when getting food.

Local food is all about two things:

1. efficient nutrition2. guilt-free indulgence

The secret to produce sustainable food efficiently on the homestead is to establish

patterns that blend with the habitat. Traditional homesteads are characterized one major word:

integration. It fits into the picture without harming the eye. It is there because it looks, tastes,

smells and feels good. It is pure. There is nothing particularly mysterious about the goal, since

all you will be doing is to do your part in webbing life courses: plants and animals. You are

practically also closing open cycles. You are doing your small part in this huge equation called

life. Remember that if we rip particular strands out of that web, we inherit their work.

We are where we eat, it is what most gardeners say. We need to understand nature, to

understand the specifics of the place we grow our gardens, whether the place is on our balcony

in the heart of the city or in the heart of a forest. If we work with our piece of ground we will be

attuned to the spirit of our surroundings and understand its needs and place in the world.

Some say freedom means self-sufficiency. But if you cannot manage to grow vegetables,fruits or animals the way described above, there is one thing you can do to improve things.

Most of the people concerned about the environment buy and use food from local growers. This

is, indeed, a first step in going organic. One of the main benefits in buying local is that its

cheaper: you do not pay for the gasoline needed for transport goods from thousands of miles.


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Most of the local growers do not bother using chemicals at the same scalecommercial farms do and it turns out that you are eating healthier food. When youpurchase local organic, you do not have to worry about the chemicals and pesticidesthat you are putting into your body and into the bodies of family members. Andnothing compares to actually talk to the man that grew those plants and find out

straight from the source what was used to grow the vegetables or what they fed theircattle. Local goods are also, most of the times, fresher. It came from the field to themarket and then to your table. It did not spend several days in trucks or warehouses.

Here are some reasons to go local:

1. Eating local helps sustainability. If we manage to understand the relationshipbetween economical and social integrity inside local food systems, we will starthealing our societies ecological and social wounds.

2.

Local is fresher. Most of the meat and fruit sold in supermarkets is older than localmarket goods, for the simple fact that large masses of food cannot be exactlycalculated or sold entirely. Also, the transportation time is smaller

3. Eating local means more for the local economy. Studies show that $1 spent locallygenerates twice as much income for the local economy. American farmers, onaverage, only gain 20 cents of each dollar spent for food, the rest going for packing,


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processing, transportation and other marketing costs. If they manage to sell directlyto local customers, they receive the full retail value, a dollar for each food dollarspent.

4. Eating local provides more meaningful food choices. We brag about the incrediblerange of choices that consumers have in the modern supermarket today. But we onlyrefer to sizes, shapes, and colors of foods. Choice exist, no lie told there, but is alsoseverely limited; all food items in supermarkets and franchise restaurants today areproduced using the same mass-production, industrial methods, with the samenegative consequences for the natural environment and for civil society. Choice is,thus, superficial. By eating local, food buyers can get the food they actually preferrather than accept whatever is offered in the supermarket. Local means authentic.

5. Eating local improves food quality. Produce picked and eaten at the height offreshness tastes better, and local farmers are not as pressed to pick to early in orderto make it to the shelf. Eating local also encourages eating seasonally, in harmonywith the natural energy of a particular place.

6. Environmental Protection. Eating local promotes biodiversity and is better for airquality and pollution because no fuel is burn for transportation. The average freshfood item travels about 1,500 miles from its points of production to final point ofpurchase. Reducing transportation does not save much money, but the ecologicalsavings may be far more significant.

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