It's always refreshing to read an article full of tips on how to best eat locally. One of the authors of the 100 Mile Diet offered his tips on how to deal with fresh produce, farmers' markets and cooking techniques. Some of my favourite tips...

The recent salmonella alert regarding tomatoes should be enough to get people talking about how they can grow more food where they live. There are a number of possibilities; what do you think the next step needs to be?

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When I was in Saint John Nb I, with others and a few local merchants, set up a 100 mile diet group. The idea is basically to eat foods that come from within a 100 mile radius of where you live. This is difficult to do 3 meals per day so we set...

The freshest food is food that you grow yourself; however, many people lack the space to grow much more than a few kitchen herbs on a sunny windowsill. If you want to garden and grow and maintain your own food, flowers or herbs but do not...