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Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.

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Fruit and Nut Ginger Bread From Mary Killen Recipe

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Ingredients And Procedures

12 oz Flour

6 oz Margarine

6 oz Soft brown sugar

6 oz Sultanas (raisins)

2 oz Chopped almonds

4 tb Treacle (molasses)

2 tb Buttermilk

1 ts Baking soda

1 ts Ground cinnamon

1 ts Ground ginger

2 Eggs

1. Sift flour with baking soda and spices. Cream margarine and sugar,

add treacle and mix well. Beat in eggs a little at a time with the flour mixture, and add buttermilk to form a soft consistency. Stir in fruit and nuts. Turn mixture into a well greased and lined 2 lb. loaf tin. Bake at 160C (320F, gas mark 3) for 75 minutes.

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