locavore

A Cape Town locavore debates the question of whether simply eating local foods is good enough... especially when those local foods might have been grown using pesticides, inorganic fertilisers and other earth-unfriendly practices.

This is a story that will likely make you hungry, inspired, and hopefully thinking a little broader than you started. This is a story of passion and mystery, with a twist at the end. This is about an ice cream that uses no dairy, yet tastes as good as, if not better than its milk based counterparts.

One of our family values is to live a green life, leaving behind the smallest carbon footprint as possible. Sharing our eco-values with our children is a big part of what we feel is our social responsibility as parents. Here are a few ideas I have learned over the years that have helped my kids critically view the mass marketing of goods directed at them, as well as inspire them to think critically of our daily actions in terms of how they affect the planet.

Building on the success of the locavore movement’s 100 mile diet, a family operated homesteading project that manages to grow an incredible 6000 pounds of food on a tenth of an acre a year is upping the ante by launching a new challenge - the 100 foot diet. The aim is to give new life to the concept of Victory gardens that provided so much food and were so common in many countries during the war years.