ROCHESTER, NY - The food that ends up on the average American table has travelled about 1500 miles.  That burns up a lot of fossil fuel.  To reduce the impact more people are choosing to eat food that's grown locally.  Those people call themselves Locavores. 

75% of what Vicki Hartman and her family eats is grown locally.  All produced within a 100-mile radius of her home in Rochester, New York.  She started up the Eat Local Challenge at her area Farmer's Market.  She says there are a few good reasons to try and eat local.  First, it shrinks your carbon footprint.  Secondly, it keeps your money circulating in the local economy.  And finally, it can save you money.
 
Julie White has been a Locavore for over a year and does almost all her shopping at local markets. Locavores are allowed some exceptions.  Coffee and rice are things that aren't grown in most parts of the United States.  The word Locavore is even in the dictionary.  In 2007, it was the New American Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year. 

Learn more about Locavores at http://www.locavores.com