100 Mile Diet
Sheila Wilson - shemark@dccnet.com
604-885-3384
SUNSHINE COAST EAT LOCAL CHALLENGE
September 1 - 30, 2008
Our committee is striving to increase public awareness of intelligent food consumption patterns. Join us this September in our goal to eat local foods.
You decide your own target: 25%, 50%, 75%, or 95% local
How do we define "local"?
1. Sunshine Coast
2. Grown within 100 miles
3. Value-added locally
4. B.C. Made
5. Your definition?
Some good reasons for eating locally:
1. Reduce your footprint.
2. Get in touch with the seasons.
3. Know what you're eating.
4. Support small farms.
5. Give back to the local economy.
6. Be healthy.
*Note from Coast Food Action:
Through building our directory and resources and connecting the food action community, the Sunshine Coast Food Action Network encourages residents to eat locally and support local growers. After establishing a base of information and resources in 2007, Food Security has submitted local growers info to the 100 Mile Diet Society to be included in their map and database. This page is dedicated to promotion and coordination for Sunshine Coast members who wish to pursue 100 mile diet in this coming growing season.
Resources can be found at
www.100milediet.org
www.coastfoodaction.org (local growers directory)
www.fiddleheadfarmersmarket.com Fiddlehead Farmers Market (seasonal market for local produce)
Sechelt Farmers Market (seasonal market for local produce)
Sustainable Living School - Roberts Creek (education for growing and harvesting edibles foods on the coast) www.ediblelandscapes.ca/SLAS.html
Roberts Creek Health Food Store: Local produce vendor
100 Mile Diet Challenge
Join your fellow community members in making a powerful move in working
towards a food secure future, fair economy and reducing your greenhouse
gas emissions. Try out a local diet for One Day, One Week, Thanksgiving
meal or the full 38 days! How will you make a difference?
100-Mile Diet
Eat Local Challenge!
Consumers and Producers in solidarity:
Affordable, accessible, nutritious, sustainably produced, fairly
traded, ethical and local food now!
Find out more about the Eat Local Challenge, our resources, sign up and
check out our Event Calendar online:
www.100milediet.org/challenge
Enjoy writing? Check out the Eat Local Challenge Blog and make sure to
enter our Short Story Contest for prizes.
Not online, please write or call Shirlene Cote
c/o SPEC 2150 Maple St.
Vancouver, BC V6J 3T3
*Include your full name and mailing address.
Additional Resources available by: Get Local!
www.getlocalbc.org
The Eat Local Challenge Project is proudly partnered with the following
groups and organizations:
BC Healthy
Communities
The Get Local Project
Your Local Farmers Market Society
Granville Island Public Market
FarmFolk/CityFolk Society