The 100 Mile Diet Challenge
35 participants and counting!

Why should a peak oil group be interested in the 100 Mile Diet? Because fossil fuels are intimately involved in our food supply. Most of the food in the supermarket is shipped here from hundreds, even thousands of miles away. Check this out for yourself the next time you're in the supermarket. Peak oil/natural gas means expensive and/or scarce oil and natural gas with attendant disruptions in the price and supply of materials derived from those fuels. Modern agriculture uses fossil fuels for making fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. Oil is used in working the farm and shipping the food to processors and supermarkets.

By eating local food, we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and help protect ourselves from disruptions in our food supply.

The first step is getting people to think about where their food comes from. The 100 Mile Diet Challenge is designed to do just that and have some fun at the same time.

We're getting at least a dozen people to commit to the 100 Mile Diet for the month of September, making exemptions for anything they feel they can't live without- coffee, etc. September is a good time to try the 100 Mile Diet because we will still have lots of produce in the farmers markets, people are back from summer vacations and we can get the schools involved.

If you're not ready to commit to the 100 mile diet for a whole month, we invite you to eat locally for one day or for one meal.