Welcome! I’m a Newington, Connecticut based localvore who is dedicated to eating food grown and produced locally. For me this means within 100 miles of my home, but other localvores define their zones differently based on what is right for them and their lifestyles. As a lacto-vegetarian (who is lactose intolerant!), I am dependent on my wonderful local farmers and millers to provide my daily food. I love feeling a connection to the earth and am working on my own garden in my new home.
I want to use this blog to share and record my journey, through the ups and downs and what I am sure will be a learning curve this first year and in the years to come. Although this lifestyle has garnered some skepticism and questions from a few people around me, I’m happily surprised by how open and interested most others have been, and how, to one degree or another, they are attune to the importance of conscious tending and care of not just the food that we eat but the world we live in – especially the world immediately outside our own front doors.
Come on along for the ride 
Cheri said,
April 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I really enjoy your blog. Thank you for the wonderful recipes and excellent list of Local Life Resources! Locavory is the only safe and sensible way to eat these days. Keep it up!
george schroder said,
April 11, 2009 at 2:22 am
This is wonderful to see. Thank you for allowing yourself to increase the goodness flowing between yourself and the earth. To assist the earth in its natural process of feeding the people is one of the highest and most profound human occupations, in my view. Particularly if this is done simply and kindly. Your activity here is at once eloquent, heartfelt, and down home.
I’ve been gardening since the beginning of WW2. Everybody had gardens. Backyards were full of them. Called them Victory Gardens during the war, and that was right. Because it’s a victory to take care of ourselves and to share the bounty. I was once kind of a citizen diplomat to Russia during very rough times there. In my position I observed the lives of many, many projects designed to help Russia. Big deals all over the place. But the project that I believe made the most difference for the regular people was when Sharon Tennison and Paul Hawken put their heads together and taught apartment dwellers to grow food in containers, on rooftops, patios, between the buildings, just all over the place. They taught them worms and compost and gave them seeds. Showed them how to get a little raised bed together out of cast offs and those people are feeding themselves and their neighbors at least part of their needs to this day.
Thanks again for sharing all this with us. May Beauty go with you always.