Hello, SkIP team.
I'm not really sure what evidence will prove the food I cooked was local or organic/better. How would it be possible to prove this to your satisfaction?
If it was grown in my own gardens, it was never sprayed. I used mulch, cow and rabbit poo for fertilizer, and no other additives. I used produce, mostly apples, pears, and apricots from other homesteads. I was told they weren't sprayed. I cut open many-a-wormy fruit to prove that to myself, but of course I didn't take a picture of them.
When I say local, I mean grown within southern Idaho. I focused on a range of 70 miles or so, assuming a distance that I could reasonably bike to. The dairy and beans came from that far away. The flour from 18 miles from my house. Its my understanding that purchased food was allowed, and I only bought things for this BB that were within this range, availible at my local greenhouse, which strives for better-than-organic, and from hence I biked food home.
The meat: venison was hunted in the two hunting units which abut my hometown. They were delivered to me after the sportsmen cleaned and gutted the carcasses. I butchered them myself, with all the muscle power I possess!
The trout came from a reservoir 11 miles away. Caught with my family's own poles, my garden's worms, my arm power.
The first elk was shot 8 miles from my house, after being hit by a snow plow. I rescued the meat and butchered it under guidance. It was my first big animal. The second elk was shot by my daughter, 21 miles away on the road (shorter as the crow flies). She, my husband and I "packed it out". He happened to snap a picture! Then I hung it in a friend's freezer, who lives between where the elk was shot and my house, then I butchered it at home. You can see, in my food preservation BB thread, that I used wooden cutting boards, good knives, a metal grinder, and double-wrap freezer paper.
Meat literally doesn't get more local than that, unless a chef raises it themselves. But since the BB requirements stated game meat was OK, I used it in several meals.
