Monday, 22 February 2010

10 mile diet map

Here is my map of my 10 mile diet, please click on the image in order to go to the interactive map.
You could move around the mouse onto the sport which located those farm within my 10miles distance and you could find the pop up images of the farm or farm shop or farmers market location. Once you double click on the spot that will link up with their official website.
The colours are indicated the relationship between some of the places and the bigger size is represent the place you can get hold with the produces. (Let say the orange sports, the bigger one is the Bromley farmers market, and the little one is the producer).

This map is just based in my living area and I will expand it in the future so that everyone could use it. This is only one method of showing where the farm is, you could find your local farm, shop and market on localfoodadvisor.com
Base on the 1oomilediet.org you could get your started guide easily.

100 mile diet is an experience to help people rise the awareness about the energy which spend on transporting foods/ food miles and encourage people think deeply and consider to make some changes in the eating habits. It is not a diet to force you to give up on your food and become vegetarian as they are most easily to find on local farms. Also the mile number isn't a number to make you to think of eating locally and not a strict diet. You can start slow by cutting your food miles from internationally to 500 to 400 to 100 etc.

This diet is not as difficult as you think and it do good for you health and for the environment. It would be fun and you will know better in your local area and community. You just need to spend sometime to find where is your local resources from others and on web.
You may improve your cooking skill and as you know more resources you could have try out more ingredients and you could save even more on buying the seasonal foods.
Talking with the farmers and people around the local farm, they will introduce you some foods and cooking methods which you may never think of.
Also it could be a fun family outing and a easier way to communicate with other by sharing experience.

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