Reprinted with permission from the October issue of the Ester Republic.

Eating local is a value that is reasonably easy to pursue when you only a household to feed, but I knew that my local food values would be tested when planning to feed 120 guests at my upcoming wedding. My fiancée Alysa and I are marrying on October 13^th of this year. Skeptics say that Slow Food only works for the small, and a congregation of 120 people is by few measures small. So our wedding, it would seem, was an opportunity to prove them wrong. (more…)