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local harvest shopping list

October 11th, 2008 by Bryan

The sustainable harvest

Why garlic from China? We’re browsing over the bounteous produce in a local supermarket: carrots, broccoli, tomatoes, five kinds of squash, russet potatoes and pale-skinned ones, cauliflowers in purple, orange and green as well as white. 

 

Éric Darier, a sustainable agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace, has joined a Gazette reporter and photographer to shop for the fixings for a harvest dinner. The menu: chicken with roasted vegetables, topped off with a homemade apple tart.  The challenge: to create a meal using only local ingredients, preferably grown organically.

 

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