The local food movement is about place and the desire to reconnect oneself to foods that are either grown, raised or native to where we live. Learning the locality of our foods is not only a challenge to engage but an education to gain. For all of our technological gadgets and modern amenities, there is something romantic and pragmatic about knowing where you live and what foods are grown there. Some might say this is about redefining ‘home.’ Our sense of place effects our identity, whether urban or rural, rich or poor. The local food movement deepens this shift in self, now we can literally taste and smell and touch those earthly things that make our environment, home.
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