Is eating locally possible within an average American family food budget?
by Jennifer Maiser “I’d love to eat local, but it’s just so expensive to do.” Those of us in the Eat Local community probably hear this statement more than any other. As the editor of this site, I often cringe to hear it because I don’t really have a good answer for it. Eating locally seems to be more expensive than other ways to buy food. Since this hasn’t been tested, what better experiment than to challenge ourselves by eating local within the budget of an average American. During one week in April, a nationwide group of authors from this site and some Locavores will commit to the Penny-Wise Eat Local Challenge focusing on eating local within the budget of an average American. This challenge is not going to be about winning. It won’t be about who can starve themselves and spend the least amount of money. It’s about a very real cataloging of the expense of eating local so that we can begin to have a conversation about whether eating locally really requires a re-prioritization of fami
