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With Good Reason invites you to a traditional Thanksgiving meal, where nearly everything on the table is grown, made, or brewed, within 100 miles of Charlottesville, Virginia. The dinner host, Tim Beatley, introduced the 100-mile Thanksgiving idea to his students after reading The 100-mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. About 95 miles east, in Petersburg, Reza Rafie and Chris Mullins train farmers to use greenhouse-like structures called High Tunnels to grow high-profit margin berries and other exotic fruits and vegetables year-round. Sixty miles west, Maria Papadakis visits an energy-efficient turkey farm in the Shenandoah Valley to showcase ways that farmers can save money while doing their part to conserve natural resources. And just miles from that farm, in Centerville, Evrim Dogu and Rick Easton of SubRosa spend 24 hours every week baking in their quest to bring naturally leavened bread back to the American mainstream. They believe bread is THE staple of the Western diet and that Americans have all but forgotten this.
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With Good Reason invites you to a traditional Thanksgiving meal, where nearly everything on the table is grown, made, or brewed, within 100 miles of Charlottesville, Virginia. The dinner host, Tim Beatley, introduced the 100-mile Thanksgiving idea to his students after reading The 100-mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. About 95 miles east, in Petersburg, Reza Rafie and Chris Mullins train farmers to use greenhouse-like structures called High Tunnels to grow high-profit margin berries and other exotic fruits and vegetables year-round. Sixty miles west, Maria Papadakis visits an energy-efficient turkey farm in the Shenandoah Valley to showcase ways that farmers can save money while doing their part to conserve natural resources. And just miles from that farm, in Centerville, Evrim Dogu and Rick Easton of SubRosa spend 24 hours every week baking in their quest to bring naturally leavened bread back to the American mainstream. They believe bread is THE staple of the Western diet and that Americans have all but forgotten this.
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The 100-Mile Thanksgiving
(Music: piano version of “We Gather Together”)
From the first smells of turkey to the final presentation of pumpkin pie, the Thanksgiving meal allows us to offer our friends and family not just our recipes, but our very values about food. We traditionally created the holiday feast from foods within walking or horse and buggy distance. Now-a-days frantic one-stop shopping at the supermarket has supplanted this custom, but there’s a movement afoot to change that… I’m Sarah McConnell and today on With Good Reason, “The 100-mile Thanksgiving.”
Later on today’s show we’ll also hear about a new way for Virginia farmers to grow fruits like raspberries and papayas year-round. And we’ll tour an energy efficient turkey farm and visit some bakers who are rekindling a love of fresh baked bread.
But first, Tim Beatley and his urban and environmental planning studen...
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