Ep. 90: Eating Locally
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Chickens, canning, farmer’s markets, and prepackaged food from the grocery store. There’s a place for all of it… and also a place to not make it our thing, guilt-free. It’s all good.
We know we’re “supposed” to eat local, but what does that look like in the real world?
In the spirit of our no/yes season, Tsh and Haley go back and forth and share what they let go of in the name of sanity, even if they'd love to have the time/money/freedom/ability to do [insert local-eating habit here]. But they have managed to do a few things alright in this department, so they talk about those, too.
For show notes, head to thesimpleshow.com and look for episode 90, or check the list below.
- Follow the new Simple Show Instagram account!
- Sign up for a CSA
- Find a local farmer's market
- Wendell Berry's The Art of the Commonplace: Agrarian Essays
- Michael Pollan's books
- Haleys blog, Carrots for Michaelmas
- Haley on Instagram and Twitter
- Tsh on Instagram and Twitter
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 90. |
| 0:06.9 | Hi, I'm Tish Soxen Rider. And I'm Haley Stewart. And on The Simple Show, we talk about saying no and yes to the right things. |
| 0:14.5 | In this episode, we're talking about eating local. What is it? Why does it matter? And how can families do it samely? All right. But before we |
| 0:22.6 | begin, I wanted to run a few fun announcements to our listeners. First up, we have a brand new |
| 0:30.6 | Instagram feed. It is at The Simple Show. So follow us and be treated to Instagram goodness as we share episodes. We ask you questions and we |
| 0:40.7 | give you a peek behind the scenes of our own lives. It's super exciting. All right. So Haley, |
| 0:48.7 | start us off. What do you say no to when it comes to eating local? Yes. |
| 0:54.4 | Okay. |
| 0:54.7 | So I say no to making food choices a point of anxiety for our family. |
| 1:01.5 | Partly because food issues are so complicated. |
| 1:05.4 | I feel like that's one thing I've learned over the past couple years. |
| 1:10.3 | My family lived on a sustainable agriculture |
| 1:12.9 | training farm for a year. This was 2015 to 2016 because my husband was doing an internship. |
| 1:19.6 | And I feel like we learned so much about food issues. And one of the things that I learned |
| 1:25.9 | is just these are incredibly complicated issues. |
| 1:29.4 | So it's there's just no point in feeling guilt or anxiety about every little decision you make |
| 1:35.9 | because it's also very complicated. It's not like, oh, well, if I just eat farm to table food |
| 1:42.1 | all the time, there's no food issues in the world. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, |
| 1:44.9 | it's just so much more complicated. |
| 1:46.5 | Yeah, |
| 2:02.4 | you know, if you were to look at Netflix and all these food documentaries, I don't know if you've ever seen any of them, but there's so many. And sometimes they are literally contradictory with each other, you know? Yes. Yes. Actually, my husband and I were just talking about some Netflix documentaries last night, |
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