Eating Local.

I want this book.

I want to eat local foods every day and every night.

I want to be Barbara Kingsolver and have my own garden and raise my own chickens and have a husband who bakes bread daily and a daughter who cans tomatoes and I want to be able to make my own cheese.

Mmmm. Maybe someday.

For now the only things local I am eating are Zan's strawberries and some veggies from the farmers market. I feel so busy and too overwhelmed to commit myself to eating only local foods, although it's something I would love to do. Plus, I have absolutely NO land to call my own. Grass hardly exists on my street.

Luckily, there are so many farmers markets in Boston that there is no excuse for me not to eat mostly local this summer. Summer is, after all, the time to do it (winter is the hard part). I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes. Who's with me?

Farmers markets around Boston

Brookline Farmers Market

Coolidge Corner, Center Street

June 17th-October 28th

Thursdays, 1:30-dusk

Copley Square Farmers Market

St. James and Dartmouth Street

May 18th-November 23rd

Tuesdays and Fridays, 11:00-6:00

Prudential Center Farmers Market

800 Boylston Street

May 20th- October 28th

Thursdays, 11:00-6:00

SOWA Open Market/Farmers Market

Harrison Ave, South End

May 16th-October 31st

Sundays, 10:00-4:00

Allston Farmers Market

N. Harvard Street and Western Ave

June 18th-October 29th

Fridays, 3:00-7:00

There are SO many FM in and around the Bean! Click here for a farmers market near you.

And if you want to read a good book about Animals, Vegetables, and Miracles (like making your own cheese) check this out. It's one of my favorites!

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingslover (also a favorite author of mine).

www.animalvegetablemiracle.com