April 5–18, 2021
MOUNT WASHINGTON Of the many significant yet simple ways we can contribute to sustaining our local and world environment, the most immediate are to consume food primarily grown in our region and to sun dry our wash. Being a locavore supports the vitality of our landscape that includes a community of farmers who minimize the use of fossil fuels in production. The natural world is spared the abuses that result from the extraction, refining, and burning of oil and gas required for industrial agriculture, and to bring food to market by airplane, ship, and automobile. Likewise, line drying clothes minimizes or eliminates the purchase and burning of primarily fossil fuel to power clothes dryers. Clothes dryers have been described as a cultural phenomenon in America.