Locavores get vocal

A new word has quietly slipped into the food system to nudge along the buying local movement. Locavores, coined by four San Francisco women in 2005, was the 2007 word of the year for the Oxford American Dictionary, and brings the concepts of eating and ecology to another level.

A locavore tries to only eat food grown or produced locally. What "local" means is up for interpretation, but a 100 mile radius around where you live has become the standard. With dozens of seasonal farmers markets opening in May, this is a good time to find and buy local produce.

By Barbara Kobsar

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