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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

Green Tomato Salsa I Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

3 ea Green tomatoes

3 ea Ripe tomatoes, any colour

1 sm Red onion, diced finely

2 ea Garlic cloves, minced

3 ea Hot peppers, stemmed,

-- seeded & finely diced 1/4 c Cilantro, chopped

1/2 ts Salt

Core tomatoes and remove most of the seeds. Cut in small dice and mix with remaining ingredients. Let the salsa stand for an hour or so before serving. The authors write: "This is a salsa for the end of summer, when both ripe and unripe tomatoes are available. However, by keeping the proportions of tomatoes, onions, garlic and hot peppers roughly the same, you can use all ripe tomatoes."

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