Kansas City Adopts 100 Mile Diet: Guide to Local Food inspires Local Eating

In Spring 2006, eight enthusiastic eaters banded together to eat local food grown or raised within 100 miles of Kansas City. As the KC 100 Mile Diet team, they wrote a ten-month series of articles published in PresentMagazine.com that described their discovery of abundant and numerous sources of local foods. The team compiled their research onto a CD and created a “Users Guide to Local Food” that is available for sale to Kansas Citians interested in eating more food from local sources. In addition to the PresentMagazine.com articles, the CD also includes favorite recipes featuring local ingredients, the KC Food Circle’s 2007 Directory of Local Organic and Free Range Food Producers, and an extensive list of websites and publications about local, organic foods.