Locavore Lifestyle

• What other trends does the Locavore Lifestyle connect to?
• Why is a trainload of produce possibly more environmentally sustainable than a truckload?
  
• Name 10 local foods-meat/fish/dairy/grain/veg/fruit within a 100 mile radius to you?
• Compare the cost of each to your supermarket?
• Eat 3 locally grown foods this week and compare with an equivalent supermarket product? Describe and contrast the texture, smell, colour, flavour, look, feel, cost of each?
• Why would you not engage in Locavore activities?
• Why would you?
• Can you see one aspect of your habitual shopping becoming local that isn't already?
• Have you thanked a farmer/producer recently?
  

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