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Are you ready for the Eat Local Challenge?

By Jennifer Maiser, Editor

There are five days to go before the beginning of the October 2008 Eat Local Challenge.  Are you ready?

Over two hundred people have signed up for the challenge from all parts of the country.  I've been receiving emails and tweets from excited participants who are trying to find their local sources for a successful month.

If you're taking the challenge, how will you participate?  Please let us know by answering these three questions either in the comments or on your blog (you can trackback or tag with 'eat local challenge' and we'll try to find your post).

1.  What is your definition of local?
2.  What exemptions will you claim?
3.  What is your goal for the month?

As an example, please click over and see my statement of participation.

If you haven't already signed up for the Eat Local Challenge, it's not too late to do so!

New Logos!

We are excited to announce that we have new Eat Local logos to celebrate the October Eat Local Challenge.  If you are participating, use this logo to promote the Eat Local Challenge on your website and show that you are a part of a nationwide food movement that focuses on the source of our food.

You can visit our logos page or download the logos direct from this post.  Please don't hotlink, and please direct the logos back to www.eatlocalchallenge.com.  Please replace any old logos with these.

90 pix by 90 pix, solid background

90 pix by 90 pix, white background

120 px by 90 px, white background

120 px by 90 px, grey background

Thanks!

Eat Local Challenge: Coming Soon!

Twelve days from now, participants around the nation will be taking part in the Eat Local Challenge.  It will take place through the month of October.  Have you signed up?

This year, we are asking some participants to be team leaders.  A team leader will check in with other participants in their geographic area, and help first-timers with hints and tips to successfully take the challenge.

Since this is the fourth annual challenge, there are a few people for whom eating locally is now a part of their daily lives.  If this describes you, please consider signing up for the challenge anyway and volunteering to be a team leader.  There are many new participants this year who would benefit from your expertise!

Dispatch from Slow Food Nation - on Serious Eats now

by Jennifer Maiser, editor

Over the weekend, San Francisco played host to Slow Food Nation, a first-of-its-kind event celebrating sustainable food.  I attended many Slow Food Nation events and reported on them for Serious Eats.

If you're interested in reading about my observations and conflicted thoughts about the event, click on through to these links:

#1: The Speaker Panels
#2: The Taste Pavilion
#3: The Marketplace
#4: Looking Forward