Geneva Green Market: Geneva, Illinois – A Local Food Green Farmers Market

Embracing a Localvore Thanksgiving

By Melissa Owens

I was most concerned about the cranberry sauce. I have been cooking Thanksgiving dinner for my family now for twelve years. My cranberry sauce was a highlight and always disappeared first - a heavenly blend of spices, pineapples, oranges, walnuts and cranberries. Now, if I were to totally commit to a localvore Thanksgiving, the cranberry sauce would have to be revamped, minus those tropical fruits.

I’ve been making the transition to local foods slowly but surely over the last few years. I belong to a local CSA, I shop farmer’s markets, Read more

This year the Geneva Green Market, NFP is having a localvore essay contest to accompany the Localvore Thanksgiving Challenge. To participate one must strive to come as close to eating 100% locally grown food for your Thanksgiving meal as possible. To participate, write a 250-word essay, discussing the experience of purchasing local ingredients as well as eating the meal itself.

The winner will receive a $100 gift certificate for the Community Winter Market, and their essay will be published in the GGM, NFP’s newsletter. Email your essays to genevagreenmarket [at] gmail [dot] com by 12/1/09.