Being that this project is all about learning to find and eat local, fresh food so that I'll be prepared when the zombie apocalypse arises, one of the first things I need to determine is what my radius for food sourcing is. The 100 mile diet, as the name implies, uses a hundred-mile radius as the line. No Impact Man used a 250-mile radius. But they weren't preparing for the zombies.
My zombie consultants inform me that 20 or 30 miles is a realistic radius for most food. Some foods, such as salt, would (in my speculations) become trade goods and therefore I don't need to worry about sourcing that locally. Unfortunately caffeine would disappear from my menu, and so would most spices.
Luckily, I live in the great Midwest and there is quite a variety of food grown here. I'm not going to restrict myself to a range of 25 miles right now, though - seems like that would work better if I had my own garden and the time to tend it, or the time to search out everyone in my neighborhood that grows food. For now I'll go for the hundred-mile radius and buy closer when possible.
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