About

About MWV Local

This blog initially started in April 2008 as a challenge for myself and some fellow bloggers to eat locally and write about the experience. I was inspired in 2007 by the One Local Summer challenge (which has had a couple of different blog-homes over the years), and knew that our mid-valley community was a perfect area to attempt eating primarily local foods at least one day a week. This is what I wrote in my first blog post:

“After all, we have great farmers’ markets & farm stands, neighbors selling eggs from their driveways, u-pick farms, co-workers sharing the bounty from their gardens… I’ve been dreaming of compiling all this information since I moved here almost two years ago.”

Increasingly, it seems that among all the hundreds of food offerings in our grocery stores, we actually have very few choices. Trans fats, high-fructose corn syrup, battery caged chickens & feed lot beef,  “fresh” produce shipped across the country or across the world, and more… so much manufacture, and for what?

The goal of MWV Local is to connect readers to local food producers and explore the many facets of the mid-valley.

About Me

My name is Kate and I live in North Albany with my husband, six chickens and two three cats.  I keep a personal blog called Escaping Suburbia where I post photographs and occasionally write about the house & garden, hobbies, or our first experience with raising chickens. We moved from Southern California in 2006, and this blog was born out of one of the major reasons we made that move. It was important to us to have a deeper connection to our community and try to protect our local food choices.

I haven’t always been like this. I used to live on Pepsi.

Write to me at mwvlocal at gmail dot com.