Meg Wolff

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I got an e-mail from Roger Doiron today asking me to please pledge to source my July 4th meal locally and to petition my governor to do the same. He's encouraging everyone from Maine to California to eat locally for one day: July 4th! So please help to spread the word.

Roger is from Scarborough, Maine, one town over from me. He runs the Web site Kitchen Gardners International that helped make the garden on the White House lawn a reality.

After receiving Roger's e-mail and signing the petition, I went shopping at Lois' Natural (in Scarborough) and was focused on the local fare. The above photo is what I can home with: Maine-grown pesticide-free yellow-eyed beans; Mother Oven Syrian Pita Bread (Sweet Fern Farn, Bowdoinham, Maine) with wood-fired, organic, local ingredients (organic whole-grain wheat flour, well water, starter made from organic wheat flour and well water, organic malted rye flour and unrefined sea salt); pesticide-free lettuce from Olivia's Garden in New Gloucester, Maine; a local organic rutabaga; and Maine Sea Salt (not in photo) from Marshfield, Maine.

At Lois', if Luke is around stocking the produce, I quiz him about what he's eating lately, or find out what's available that's locally grown. Luke is 53 days a locavore as of today and if you want to read more about his endeavor, I encourage you to visit his blog, Lukaduke.

To find out more about local Maine products and produce, please visit the Eat Maine Foods! or go to a Farmers' Market near you!

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