Thanksgiving Meals Planned Around US
NOVEMBER 10, 2007 - The links are coming in . . . people are planning a local Thanksgiving. See what they’re doing to get inspired. An ESL teacher and mother of six, married to a Navy Chief in Pittsburgh. . .
Emily and Mike of Florence,South Carolina . . . they should have no trouble with a 100-Mile Thanksgiving. Starting Oct. 7, they began a year of eating within the Carolinas, and already they’ve been baking bread, making pasta, and growing mushrooms. They have a local-food resources list for their Carolina Food Project.
Phelan, the “Homesteading Neophyte” in Kansas who professes to love Harley Davidsons and death metal, urges a bartered local Thanksgiving to rebuild community; and plans to hunt a deer to trade for flour.
Edible Sacramento has posted food resources to enjoy a 100-Mile Thanksgiving in their corner of California.
And in Australia, where Thanksgiving isn’t a national holiday, Friends of the Earth are urging folks to eat local over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday. Down Under, that’s the height of the growing season. Handy! -ADS
