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- In this first piece, author and enviromentalist Bill McKibben goes an entire winter eating only local or home-produced foods (8:13) from his local Lake Champlain valley in Vermont, and from this experience ponders questions about the global food system.
- In this second piece, McKibben discusses the ecological implications of his recent boob, Wandering Home -- A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks (7:46)
- The questions McKibben raises in these two pieces can take us in may directions. Here is just one, on locally grown, organic foods (8:37)
- Tell us of any experiences you have had with locally grown or produced foods. What about roadside vendors?
- What do you see as the economic advantages to your community of locally produced food or goods generally?
- Gardening is the world’s most popular hobby: any experience with gardening yourself or with gardeners?
- More from Wikipedia on organic food and autarky (or societies that do not trade)
