Questions

How can I take on the challenge to eat only local food for a full year? Would I be able to feed my family all the nutrition they need if I had only meals prepared with local food? If I found that the local nutrition was sufficient, would they hate me for making all their meals with rutabaga and turnip in the winter? Could I possibly freeze, can and jam enough to fill in the gaps to make it healthy and interesting?

How would this challenge work? Who would even be interested? What would doing something really extreme accomplish? Suppose the challenge was to try to do something that everyone could do? Would it be possible to create a model that others could apply to their own lives?

What if the challenge was to eat only food grown in Ontario? Would it be possible for our urban family of three to have all their homemade meals made solely from what is grown and raised here in Ontario? What will happen to a mac and cheese eating three year old, a meat loving and kale avoiding husband and a busy working foodie mom if we take on this challenge?

How do I answer these questions? Where do I get started? Will I really be able to accomplish something like this? What would happen if I asked some of these questions to other people?