Eating Locally

Eating locally is not something very many people do. On average, the food we eat today travels thirteen hundred miles from where it is produced, changing hands at least six times along the way. In addition, nine-tenths of our food comes from non-local sources, with handlers along the food chain gaining three times more income from its consumer price than the farmers, ranchers, and fishermen who produced it. My aunt and uncle have been doing a good job at this for years however. They live in Grass Valley, CA. My uncle is a fisherman so they eat a lot of fish that he has caught from off the coast of California. During the summer and fall, they attend a local farmers market to get food from around the area.