Anyone heard of/doing this? Is there similar schemes in your area?
sounds like a great idea in so many ways (though i can't manage without pineapple!)
http://fifediet.wordpress.com/about/What is this? How do I join?
The Fife Diet asks people to sign-up to eating food from Fife, for a year, monitor their progress and share their experience. This is a celebration of local goodness not an exercise in self-denial. Like most regions Fife has loads of fruit and vegetables, fantastic farm-reared lamb, beef, poultry, and amazing seafood. The project was inspired by Vancouver’s 100 Mile Diet and aims to bring people together who are into preparing for a low-carbon future.
We’ve had whole foods and slow food, fast food and organics.We’ve had road-food, and freeganism, Masterchef and Naked Chefs. We’ve had the F Word and the Atkins, Meals on Wheels and Free School Meals. The difference about the Fife Diet is, it’s not actually about you any more.
We are obsessed by food. We should be, because there is a problem. As Raj Patel points out in his new book ‘Stuffed and Starved’ unless you are a corporate food executive, the food system isn’t working for you. If you are one of the world’s rural poor dependent on agriculture for your livelihood - and roughly half the global population of 6 billion fall into this category - you are likely to be one of the starved. If you are an urban consumer, whether an rich metropolitan or slum-dwelling labourer, you are likely to be one of the stuffed, suffering from obesity or other diet-related ills.The Fife Diet was inspired by people coming together at the Big Tent Festival of Stewardship at Falkland June 16/17th 2007.
The Fife Diet aims to:
* Bring people together to eat good local food
* Boost the local community of food producers
* Make fresh organic produce more widely available
* Help each other re-learn how to eat seasonally
* Challenge the insanity of food miles.
To join us - whether you can eat all of your food from Fife or not - contact us at: fifediet (at) yahoo.co.uk. You will be sent details of local suppliers and put on our monthly e-newsletter.