What are you doing to mark Earth Day? Right now I am sipping a homemade latte and watching unseasonal snow showers falling outside, and if the weather breaks a bit, I will likely plant a few more things in our garden to join the peas that are poking an inch or two from the cold, dark soil.
In many ways Natalie and I are celebrating this entire year as Earth Year, rather than one Earth Day. We started our Washington state eating year on April Fools Day, a year in which we are only eating food made with ingredients that come from Washington state. Thankfully, Washington state is a big place with a wide variety of crops grown and available for a limited number of local food experimenters like us. But 19 days into the experience we are already seeing some challenges to, for instance, living without sugar, without citrus fruit. It is interesting to realize that when we go to the grocery store we cannot venture into the middle of the store at all. There is no buying anything in a box or a can, nothing pre-prepared.
Why do this? You can read more about that and check out a new blog we are slowly building to write about our Washington eating year at www.eatlocalwashington.com. Like our eating adventure, this new Tinderbox-based site is a work in progress.
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