Let's hear it for local and organic!

All the meals I cook I check against my internal local and organic food monitor.  And Monday, I was surprise to find that I had created what maybe the most local and/or organic meal I've ever made.

Roast beef from local grass fed beef.

Succotash made with local and organically grown corn and lima beans from my back yard.

Bread I made with organic flour and local raw honey.

How awesome is that?  

When I hear stories like the recent egg recall (380 million!), it just re-emphasizes how important it is to get your food from people rather than corporations.  For corporations, you are one of the faceless masses, a calculated risk--an actuarial number of a predicted payout if the corporation's food sickens or kills you.  For the farmer at the farmer's market, you're Natalie, John, Billy-Bob--a customer that comes every two weeks for more fresh veggies for your two kids.  My egg supplier is Brian, my company's IT director.  My meat supplier is Laurel Creek Farm--people who are fine to take $350 out-of-town checks because "people who bounce checks don't drive an hour to buy our meat from a farmer's market."  We grow many of our own fruits and veggies.  We're not completely local and organic, but we're eating more local and organic than we were last year.  And we'll be further along next year.