{"id":1130,"date":"2015-03-27T17:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2015-03-21T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T23:01:52","slug":"will-you-take-the-challenge-to-eat-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/will-you-take-the-challenge-to-eat-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Food Tip: Accept the Challenge to Eat Locally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>April 1st \u2013 30th &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Make the Shift<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the often-sited statistic, our food travels on average 1,500 miles before it reaches our plates. Agribusiness is SC\u2019s largest industry however over 90% of our food is still imported. Choosing to eat locally grown and produced food effects our environment, our health, our communities and our local business economy. The goal of the <strong>Eat Local Challenge<\/strong> is to help consumers \u201cMake the Shift\u201d in their choices, their spending and their overall local food consumption. What we hope participants will find is that eating locally isn\u2019t really that challenging. With innovative arrangements that link producers and consumers like community supported agriculture (CSAs), farmers markets, local sections in your grocery store and farm to table connections, local food is abundant in the Lowcountry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Take the Challenge<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Will you pledge to shift $10 or more of your\u00a0weekly food spending\u00a0<\/strong><strong>towards our local food system?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FOR MORE JUICY DETAILS &amp; RESOURCES:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lowcountrylocalfirst.org\/eat-local-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lowcountrylocalfirst.org\/eat-local-challenge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1st \u2013 30th &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0Make the Shift &nbsp; According to the often-sited statistic, our food travels on average 1,500 miles before it<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/will-you-take-the-challenge-to-eat-locally\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":1131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,17,3,40,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}