Lancaster Buy Fresh Buy Local

TIP: Join a CSA (community-supported agriculture) and share the bounty of the harvest. You’ll get to know people in your community and get the freshest produce all season long!

Have fun with your kids and don’t be afraid to play with your food!

Lisa Bowers from Kid’s Cookie Break on WJTL interviews Larry Guengerich from MCC about the Kids’ Simply in Season Children’s cookbook and he talks about the new MCC cookbook and their local food initiative.

Click here to listen to the interview with Larry

Lisa also interviewed Linda Aleci about Buying Fresh and Buying Local!

Click here to listen to Lisa’s interview with Linda

As stated on their website “Kids Cookie Break airs LIVE every Saturday morning from 9 am-noon on FM 90.3 WJTL and the KCB airs 24/7 on kidscookiebreak.com. The KCB aims to entertain, educate & empower kids 14 and under with a music/talk atmosphere welcoming to listeners of all ages.”

TIP: Cook with your kids! Help them pick out a fun receipt, take them to your local Market and help them pick out the items you’ll need for your dish.  Start cooking! While having dinner with the family encourage your children to talk about all the wonderful local food on their plate. 

Simply in Season Children's Cookbook

Want to buy the Kids’ Simply in Season Children’s cookbook  for your little one? Click here

 

Austin and Baby George

Buy Fresh, Buy Local, By Example

Anne Kirby and George Hunter

My husband and I were always aware of the Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign. We would go to market and buy some local products, but we never thought about why it was important or why we should do more than the small amount we were doing. It wasn’t until we educated ourselves that we realized the importance was our children.

What kind of examples were we setting for our sons, Austin and George? How were our dietary habits influencing them? My husband and I discussed this one day after visiting a local food establishment (a BFBL establishment, I should add). We felt we promoted healthy eating at home – lots of fruit and veggies for dinner. But we weren’t really teaching our kids why eating fresh, local foods was more than just good for you but also good for others.

So we stepped-up our commitment and are encouraging our children to come along for the ride. Austin even helped us film the documentary Buy Fresh Buy Local By Lancaster last summer. He learned the campaign’s importance through meeting farmers who work hard in their fields to provide us with great local foods and touring eating establishments whose mission was fresh and local food.

Our example has the multiplier effect: our investment now will yield greater returns in the future. So my husband and I are taking the 21 Day Challenge not only for ourselves but also for our sons. Creating positive habits becomes more difficult as we get older—trust us, we know—but if that habit is started young it just naturally becomes a way of life.

TIP: Bring the kids along next time you go to market – start the conversation!