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fyi, garden writers. I got this e-mail and thought I'd share it with the list.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
International Kitchen Garden Day:
A Global Celebration of the Slowest and Most Local Food of All
 
24 August 2003
 
PORTLAND, ME - On August 24th, kitchen gardeners and food-lovers from around the world will gather in their gardens and kitchens with friends, family, and members of their local communities to celebrate the positive role of home-grown, home-cooked food in society, health, and gastronomy.  The annual event is being coordinated by Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI), an international non-profit group that seeks to promote closer connections between people, their food, the land, and each other. 
 
Despite some encouraging trends to the contrary, food now travels on average between 1,500 and 2,500 miles (ie 2400-4000 km) from field to table, as much as 25 percent farther than two decades ago*.  "Our current long-distance relationship with food is a losing equation," says KGI founder Roger Doiron. "Lettuce grown on the west coast and shipped 3,000 miles to the east coast requires more than 35 times as much fossil fuel energy in transport as it provides in food energy."
 
According to Doiron, the environment is not the only loser.  "By eating road-weary, industrially-grown produce coming from thousands of miles away, we miss out on a great opportunity for achieving health for our bodies and pleasure for our palates," he says.  "The simple act of growing some of what you eat is the most local, most healthful, and most delicious way of experiencing food and represents a precious part of the world's common cultural heritage."

 
For more information:
about International Kitchen Garden Day, see: www.kitchengardeners.org/kitchengardenday.html
about the definition of a "kitchen gardener", see: www.kitchengardeners.org/whatiskg.html
about Kitchen Gardeners International, see: www.kitchengardeners.org/whatisKGI.html
about KGI's founder, see: www.kitchengardeners.org/founder.html
or contact: Roger Doiron, telephone (207) 883-6773, e-mail: info@kitchengardeners.org
 
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*source: Home Grown: The Case for Local Food in a Global Market, Worldwatch Institute, 2002
 
--
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, speaker, photographer
Director, Region III Garden Writers Association
Phone: 317.251.3261
Fax: 317.251.8545
E-mail: hoosiergardener@earthlink.net
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