ReThink Red Deer

Living the 100 Mile Diet

Location: Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery

Sunday June 6th, 2010
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

(No cost but donations - cash or non-perishable food item - are suggested)

In support of the Hungry Planet and Red Deer Eats exhibit at the Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery, please join us for a presentation on "Living the 100 Mile Diet"  featuring Ivor MacKay.

The 100-mile diet simply means eating locally: if it's grown or raised more than 100 miles (160 kilometres) from where you live, you don't eat it. Ivor MacKay with his wife Lona showed that living on a 100-Mile Diet is possible in a more northern climate, and that one can live quite well on the bounty close to home. Ivor works in IT for the CBC. The family is in flux as their three children are at various stages of leaving home, finishing school and going into senior high.

The MacKays are following in the footsteps of two early pioneers of this concept—Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon from Vancouver, British Columbia. They documented their 100-Mile Diet journey in 2005 in a book entitled The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating (Toronto: Random House Canada, April 2007).