The 100 Yard Diet

by Marisa McClellan, Posted Aug 29th 2007 @ 12:33PM

These days most folks have heard about the 100 Mile Diet, a style of eating awareness that challenges folks to only eat food that is grown or produced within 100 miles of their home. Novella Carpenter, a writer and filmmaker out of California recently upped the ante and spend the month of July adhering to a 100 Yard Diet. She has a small urban farm in Oakland (who knew that you could farm so close to San Francisco) on which she raises a bunch of vegetables, in addition to pigs, rabbit and some fowl (although most of her flock was killed earlier in the summer by an unknown predator). She also keeps honey bees at a friend's farm a bit further out of the city.

She blogged the whole experience at City Farmer (here's the link to her first entry, then just read forward from there). Other than a very small taste of prosciutto, she stayed true to her diet for the entire month. Her approach certainly takes local eating to an entirely new and impressive level.

Filed Under: Farming, On the Blogs, How To
Tags: 100 Yard Diet, honey, Novella Carpenter, NovellaCarpenter, Oakland, CA, Urban Farming

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