100 mile diet

This is an overgrown meadow beside Porcupine Lake. It is in the city. Once this was farmed, but the farms have all but disappeared. There used to be market gardens, dairy and beef cattle. Timmins used to supply much of its food. Now the 100 mile diet is being promoted, but not here. In this diet, in order to lessen our ecological footprint, people are encouraged to eat locally. It simply could not happen here. The food is all trucked here and most comes from outside the country. It's not because it is too cold here, this is not nearly as far north as Winnipeg where they showed a newsclip promotting the idea. The clay soil is very rich but this is a mining town, gold, diamonds and nickel, and that's all that seems to matter. Meanwhile I won't be able to go on the 100 mile diet any time soon, although the idea intrigues me.