100 Mile diet....

Well Trisha and I are 11 days into our 100 mile diet, which will go till early December. It has been fun finding locally produced products, but some things such as soy milk does not have a local alternative. Thankfully, soy milk is really the only thing that doesn't fit into the diet, we found eggs, butter, bread, veggies, fruit, etc that is made locally.

The farmer's market has been a treat every time we can make it Saturday morning. I think the bread made locally is incredible, while the taste can be savoured through the weeks, it has been fun meeting the people as well. This week we bought a couple loafs and chatted with the producer, she shared how her week was rough so her co-worker would have count our money. Part of the reason to participating in the diet is to be more connected to the products. We often talk about the importance of relationships. I think by buying locally brings us in relationship to the product and the community that produces our food. David Morris notes this is the reason why eating locally is important, "community, which, to me, is the most important reason to prefer local food. Distance kills community."

I feel that the lack of pesticides and hormones in our food is a move in the right direction. It is also fun to try new things, we are able to get bison burger that have significantly less fat than the leanest burgers at Superstore, bread that is amazing(this week we got a Cranberry Pumpkin Seed Bread..yummy), great jams from lock port, Mexican sausages. Well the list would go one.....for a further theological discussion on eating locally and becoming Green download some sermons from Mars Hill Bible Church - the series is called 'God is Green. Well hope everyone has a good work, and are at work at redeeming the world.