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October 9, 2008The Local Food Challenge |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: AMHERST, Mass., Oct. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- For Hampshire College students involved in the Local Food Challenge, there are no stops for a late night burrito. As the name implies, the Local Food Challenge is about eating only things grown or produced close enough to know exactly where they're coming from. During spring semester last year, Porter-Brown and nine other Hampshire students collaborated in an independent study with environmental microbiology professor Jason Tor to figure out whether there was a wide enough assortment of food grown within a 150-mile radius of the Hampshire College campus to provide them with the basis of a healthy diet, without having to go broke paying for it. The game plan successfully designed, Porter-Brown, Malaika Mara Spencer, Justin Mest, Noah Kellerman, and Emily Ryan dove into the challenge at the start of this school year. The cost of eating local so far has averaged out at about $25 a week, and that includes stocking up on supplies for the winter. While the environmentally-conscious students will try to subsist completely on local food this semester (with excused breaks whenever they happen to be out of town), next semester they'll also be frequenting restaurants that are doing their part to support local farmers and producers.
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