Featuring Locally Grown Food at Commons!

McKibben touched on the subject of “locally grown food” becoming the new “organic” and that is exactly what is currently happening. Eating locally grown food has been practiced well since humans began to grow their own food. However as transportation became more readily available transporting food from faraway places became the norm. Transporting food became the only way to sustain our demand for a variety of food. It’s only recently that eating locally grown food has become the new food trend. The local food movement has a loose definition in that it simply means eating food that has been locally grown. What locally means varies from person to person. The local food movement aims at having produce that tastes better since it is locally grown and also decreasing the carbon foot print from transporting food. Farmer’s Markets are actually a great place to get locally grown food and have become popular over the past few years. As restaurants began to realize that locally grown food was becoming the new thing, they began to incorporate locally grown items into their menu. In fact The Scape Café in Lake Placid emphasizes on building connections between their customers and their local food growers and producers. This is mostly done by mentioning where the food items that customers are eating originated from. To my surprise as I was leaving Commons I could not help but notice that there was a chalkboard filled with items that were locally purchased. The local food movement is right here on campus with us! 

http://greengoddessfoods.com/about/mission-statement/
http://www.sustainabletable.org/254/local-regional-food-systems  http://source.southuniversity.edu/farm-to-table-and-the-local-food-movement-49961.aspx