Pledging to Buy Local

I’ve signed the American Farmland Trust’s Keep it Local pledge.

I think the pledge is a great idea, a way for us urbanites and suburbanites in particular to make a commitment to buying local.

This should be easy to do during the summer, when farmers markets are a stone’s throw from my house and office.

But in the winter, I’m going to have to do a better job finding local sources of food and…storing up for the winter.

I’ve already got a couple takers on the canning party. Now I just need to find a teacher.

If you go to the AFT’s site, you can also sign up to request free No Farms, No Food bumper stickers to pass out at your local farmers markets or whatever locavore event you’re hosting. I’m not much of a bumper sticker gal, so I’m probably going to pass on this. But I like the idea.

BTW…I learned about this pledge thanks to Twitter and Farmland’s Twitter feed.