Is a live food diet ecologically friendly and sustainable?
One of the challenges of a live food diet, especially in northern climates is the limited growing season and the need to import certain foods during the winter. We have also come to expect to have certain foods like avocados, coconuts and a range of superfoods that have to be shipped to us. How do we nourish ourselves and still make eco-friendly choices? There are many things we can do to increase the local content of our diets, during the winter and throughout the year. These are just a few: We can start an indoor garden with sprouts and soil-grown microgreens that will provide us with living, fresh food for pennies a day. We need to make strategic choices about which foods we eat – it may not be possible to go 100% organic, local, raw all year long. We need to be comfortable with our choices and receive the food that we choose in a spirit of gratitude. We may choose to eat some lightly cooked, locally grown and stored vegetables during the winter to release our dependence on transpor
