How does State of Progress find farmers for visits and tours?
Through online databases of farmers and markets (see Links), as well as through just stopping into towns and cities checking out the local town and farmers markets. How does State of Progress find fuel and what is the process? We will forage for our fuel. While McDonalds is at every highway stop, they often use shortening and they change their oil so infrequently that it would be just as unhealthy for our champion Buttercup mobile as it would be for us. We will source out restaurants with some health consciousness, fairs, Chinese restaurants, diners if their oil does not look so murky…waste oil is everywhere! Almost every restaurant has at least one fryer. The vehicle smells like what was cooked in the oil so we try to avoid meat and fish spots. Then we take the used oil to idyllic scenic spots (preferably with swimming holes!) to clean if the time permits. The oil must be filtered to remove food bits before it can be put in our tank. Heated oil moves through the filter much quicker.
