I was eating mostly local all summer and look forward to doing it again. Even now, there is a lot of local food in the house—chickens and pesto in the freezer, eggs, apples, sweet potatoes, squash, canned salsa and jams and fruit butters and vegetable relish and roasted peppers.

I think I’ll leave this on my list because I want to grow more of my own vegetables in 2009 and because I want to get a freezer and freeze more stuff for use in the winter. This goal gives me a place for those activities.