Comments on: Reducing your food miles http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070630/reducing-your-food-miles/ Hints, tips and discussions on reducing your impact on the environment. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ivan http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070630/reducing-your-food-miles/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Ivan Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:58:30 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070630/reducing-your-food-miles/#comment-441 This is a really interesting concept that I've been looking into a bit, especially when you consider the results of the Consumption Atlas (already mentioned on this blog). However, interestingly, if you check out the Farmer's Markets, you'll see that some of the produce comes from quite a long way away, like bananas from the NSW-Qld border. However, the advantage of the Farmer's Market is that they all can tell you where the produce is from, unlike a supermarket which only has a country of origin - this only works if you live in a circular country with a radius of 100 miles! Hey, now I'm a serial commenter! Keep those interesting articles coming! This is a really interesting concept that I’ve been looking into a bit, especially when you consider the results of the Consumption Atlas (already mentioned on this blog). However, interestingly, if you check out the Farmer’s Markets, you’ll see that some of the produce comes from quite a long way away, like bananas from the NSW-Qld border.

However, the advantage of the Farmer’s Market is that they all can tell you where the produce is from, unlike a supermarket which only has a country of origin – this only works if you live in a circular country with a radius of 100 miles!

Hey, now I’m a serial commenter! Keep those interesting articles coming!

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