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"Keep your friends close, and your farmers closer." Good ol' Anonymous can always be counted on for the best quotes! In this case, Anonymous really nailed it for the week I spent following the 100 Mile Diet. Some of the inspiration also came from author Barbara Kingsolver, who ate locally for a year and wrote a book about it : Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life . Unlike Kingsolver, who produced 70% of her food from a farm in Virginia, I was going to have to do this the hard expensive way. That meant shopping for it. Val and I are really lucky to live in one of the few places in Canada where we can get farm-fresh produce, meat, cheese, beer, wine and more within 160 kilometres of our house. And so the week began at The Old Farm Market and The Root Cellar. Both are known for their stock of local goods. And yes, both are very spendy. I specifically chose the month of January for this challenge, because it's a lot tougher to do in the middle of wi...