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Eat your way to Green by eating locally- Visit the Saratoga Springs Farmer’s Market for homegrown, home baked, and handmade products in an open-air marketplace (May-October) and the Salvation Army Building (November-April). Find delicious fruits, vegetables, hanging baskets, jams & jellies, baked goods, meats, eggs, crafts and more. Better yet, shopping at the Farmer’s Market ensures that you are getting fresh, great tasting food products while supporting local agriculture and community involvement. Apart from being better tasting, more nutritious, and benefiting the local economy, eating local foods helps save fossil fuels used to ship food across the globe and to our plate.
Read on to take Ideal Bite's 100-mile Thanksgiving Challenge...
We hope you have enjoyed Ideal Bite's daily tips for living Green on our homepage- Since November 14th's tip goes along with our "Eat Local" tip, we decided to keep it on our green living section: Are you ready for a Turkey Day challenge?The Bite Thanksgiving-dinner glory is fewer than 100 miles away. This year, try serving only food (condiments and spices excluded) produced within a 100-mi radius of your house - it'll tap your competitive spirit, and help save the planet while you prep for your feast. The Benefits - Lower emissions. An Iowa State University study found that people who switched to buying 10% of their produce from local sources produced 5-17 times less CO2 overall than if they'd bought nonlocal.
- Community connections. Sociologists estimate that people who skip the supermarket in favor of farmers markets have about 10 times the number of conversations while shopping...that's 10 more chances to get lucky.
- Supporting family farms. Most conventional foods travel an average of 1,500 mi before ending up on your plate. Buying in your own backyard saves a lotta energy.
- Triumphing in the face of adversity. Amid supermarket aisles full of canned stuffing made in China, a 100-mi Thanksgiving can take some creativity, but that makes it all the more satisfying...and tasty.
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