{"id":403,"date":"2010-07-19T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/local-food-for-sustainability.html"},"modified":"2010-07-19T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T18:09:20","slug":"local-food-for-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/local-food-for-sustainability.html","title":{"rendered":"Local food for sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/newamericanvillage.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/food-for-thought.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/__y8S8Ej1N-4\/TERstyJ2lVI\/AAAAAAAABik\/9KoNAhC8O88\/s400\/local+food.JPG\"><\/a>\nJames Polk provides us some\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newamericanvillage.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/food-for-thought.html\">\nFood for Thought<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nLet\u2019s take a quick tally. 1) Locally grown food uses less fossil fuel getting to market, 2) fresh fruits and vegetables are healthier than packaged foods, and 3) buying locally grown food supports your local economy possibly keeping your would-be deadbeat friends employed.\n<p>\nMy favorite reason to eat locally grown foods is the taste. Go to a farmers\u2019 market and load up on freshly picked tomatoes, bite into a raw crisp green bean, take home some succulent zuccinni and eggplant to stir-fry \u2013 you\u2019ll be hard-pressed to find a more delicious meal.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nYep.\nThat and okra.\nAnybody need some okra?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Polk provides us some Food for Thought: Let\u2019s take a quick tally. 1) Locally grown food uses less fossil fuel getting to market, 2) fresh fruits and vegetables are healthier than packaged foods, and 3) buying locally grown food supports your local economy possibly keeping your would-be deadbeat friends employed. My favorite reason to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,40,42,43],"tags":[2761,659,2775,2777,1266,5,826,52],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-economy","category-food-and-drink","category-gardening","tag-agriculture","tag-drink","tag-food","tag-gardening","tag-james-polk","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-local","tag-sustainable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-6v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}