Baby Steps to Becoming a Locavore

A few days ago I wrote about how I could never be a total Kingsolver locavore because I can’t fathom being without citrus in the winter.

So I was heartened to read this piece by Nancy Pekar in the News & Observer, the end of a series about eating local.

Here’s the key section:

For those of you who think being a locavore means you have to get absolutely all of your sustenance from area farmers, give yourself a break. Start with a New Year’s resolution not to buy any more tomatoes in the grocery store. Or to go to a farmers market just a little more often. Or to try one new vegetable a month.

I can totally do this (except that I’d rather have nearly tasteless tomatoes for texture than none at all). Indeed, we already are. We definitely did more to eat local in 2008 than we did in 2007. And we expect to improve again in 2009, for reasons of health and community.

It’s good to see in print that someone else is taking this approach.