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Still kicking in Boise!

Posted at 8:12 AM on May 29, 2008 by Scott Swendsen (3 Comments)

Hi!

Its been a long time since my last posting. I apologize for those wondering if I had succumbed to starvation from not finding any local foods in Boise! Actually, there was a bit of a family emergency and a career/life decision that had to be made. And since family is involved, career comes second (at least for me!).

So I decided to move back to Minnesota. I am in the process of seeing if I can transfer back to my old job in St Paul sometime this summer so I can be closer to my parents. With this significant change in my life, I felt it was necessary to talk to the coordinators of the Locavore Nation study to see if I should drop out since I would at some point be in the same location as another Locavore Nation participant (Sareen). Also, many of my plans for growing, preparing, and storing food this summer have changed.

But I was trilled after hearing recently that I should keep moving forward with our little locavore project. Even with the challenges of the last 6 weeks (family, travel, classes, work, shift changes), I have been very committed to my goals of eating a seasonable, sustainable and local diet. It has become "second nature" to look for "Made in Idaho" labels, go to the Saturday farmers market, ask what's local when eating out, and shop with the intent of buying local food and products.

So I have been saving up a ton of images, stories and thoughts from these past couple of months to share. But wanted to let you all know first that yep - I'm alive!

Scott Swendsen

Comments (3)

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Hey Scott,
Glad to know you are alive and are making it through the crisis.
Take care!
Paulette

Posted by Paulette Thompson | May 30, 2008 7:14 PM

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Good luck, Scott. Keep yer chin up.
Cheers,
Autumn

Posted by Autumn Long | June 2, 2008 10:10 AM

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Thanks Paulette & Autumn! Life is always taking such interesting turns.

I am glad that the timing of this occurred now rather than back when we first started this dietary lifestyle change. Since I am so used to reading labels, asking questions as to the food source, eating out only at the restaurants that I know prepare local foods, it has be relatively easy to continue with our local, seasonal, sustainable and natural food diet.

I could see where back in January, the added stress of dealing with these issues would have sent me right back to fast and non-local foods.

The only thing that is bumming me out on our Locavore Nation challenge is that I probably will not be able to put away as much food as I had planned on this summer since frozen and canned food may not make it back to Minnesota over the course of a 3 or 4 day trip...

Posted by Scott | June 6, 2008 10:36 AM