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Originally Posted by bjones6416
I'm making an effort to eat as locally as possible, although I'm not fanatic about it. I just finished reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver, and she mentions in there that there is quite a movement in Alaska to eat locally even with such short growing seasons. I applaud your efforts! I had fresh lettuce this past week, too, from my local CSA. It was so good!
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Some people here are quite hardcore about it lol. We got folks who walk around in these brightly colored shirts/hats/hoodies that say "Alaska Grown" on them. You tend to look for that logo on food in the grocery store while shopping, just to know you are supporting your local economy, as well as knowing how fresh the food is.
The farmers markets in the summer here are just unbelievable. Alaska is such an odd place to grow things, our summers are almost pure sunshine, 19 hours of sunlight by the middle of June, so while we have a short summer we sure pack in as much grow-time as we can
