Locavore Challenge: Success: Flour Located

We will have to get back into bread baking (and pizza making and maybe even tortilla making) come October 1, because I have successfully located a small farm that produced and processes their own wheat-- and sells small enough bags of flour for household consumption. Next Saturday we'll drive down to Corvallis (81 miles away) and pick up three 5lb. bags of flour, and some dried fava beans (the only local beans they have left-- time to experiment!).

Locavore Challenge: 100 Mile Wheat Search

I am about 2 hours into my search for local wheat at this point in time, and running into what is likely to be the largest stumbling block for people trying to eat locally: time. Well, that and the lack of local coffee sources :-)

After 2 hours I think I might have located a farm that grows and processes wheat within 100 miles of Portland. This means we'll be able to make bread, tortillas and pasta-- staples in our diet right now. Without a local wheat source we'll be living relatively carb-free for the duration of the EcoChallenge... But since the EcoChallenge is all about reducing your impact, eating a more meat and dairy than usual isn't sitting right with me either. So the wheat search continues...

(And the tomoatoes continue! We're probably at 120-150 pounds of tomatoes from our garden so far! This week alone we've had tomato pie (thumbs down), pasta with tomato sauce, greek salad, sundried tomatoes, and loads of cherry tomato snacks.)