{"id":13875,"date":"2011-11-22T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2011-11-22T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T02:10:18","slug":"celebrate-thanksgiving-with-local-foods-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/celebrate-thanksgiving-with-local-foods-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Thanksgiving With Local Foods Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Local foods play a big role in my life. I’m dedicated to eating as locally as possibly, and growing as much of my own food as I reasonably can. When there are foods I need to buy, I try to make sure they are organic and seasonal.<\/p>\n And to celebrate my love of food, especially local foods, I have decided to make our Thanksgiving celebration at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage<\/a> more intentionally devoted to local foods. What better way to celebrate local foods than during this annual day of feasting?<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m not gonna try to hide it — food is totally central for me during Thanksgiving (and, really, most celebrations.) Of course, good company is crucial, too. Anyway, it feels very important to me that my Thanksgiving celebration be unique to where I live, and not mimic the conventional tradition of needing to have specific foods present.<\/p>\n You can’t grow cranberries in northeast Missouri, for example, so why do I need to have them at the meal? We DO grow blueberries, strawberries, currants, blackberries, and a wealth of other local berries. Why not substitute the typical cranberry sauce for a local analogue of delicious, preserved, local, homegrown berries?<\/p>\nCreate a Local Foods Thanksgiving Menu<\/h3>\n