The Locavore's Handbook
The Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget
By Leda Meredith; Sandor Ellix Katz (Foreword by)
(Lyons Press, Paperback, 9780762755486, 208pp.)
Publication Date: April 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook
Categories: Methods - Canning & Preserving, Seasonal
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These days, nearly everyone wants to eat green and local, but tight schedules and even tighter budgets can make it seem like an unattainable goal. The Locavore's Handbook: A Busy Person's Guide to Eating Local on a Budget is here to help! With practical, down-to-earth advice, Leda Meredith guides readers through the process of incorporating locally grown foods into their meals. In a concise book designed for mainstream readers, she discusses budgeting; sourcing, growing, and preserving food; shopping efficiently; and supporting local merchants and planet Earth. Everyone, including time-pressed, cash-strapped urbanites with mini-refrigerators and zero storage space, will find inspiration and a host of helpful, surprising ideas. Brooklyn-based Meredith's tips and tricks are particularly helpful for readers in cooler climes.
Leda Meredith is New York City’s leading locavore. She is the author of Botany, Ballet and Dinner from Scratch, a memoir with recipes about her year of eating only foods grown within a 250-mile radius of her home in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured on The Martha Stewart Show and in the New York Times and New York Post. An instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, she details her locavore lifestyle on her blog, Leda’s Urban Homestead, at ledameredith.net/wordpress.

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