JUST SLIGHTLY AHEAD OF THE CURVE, AGAIN. A Hit and Run post on "food miles" makes the following observation.

By extension, walking to the big "industrial" supermarket in your neighborhood may be most responsible food choice you can make.

Two weeks until the Schnuck's opens a quarter mile from here. Others may look at it, and at my neighborhood of new houses, and call it "sprawl." I call it five minutes saved on the bike ride to and from the office, as well as a shorter walk to the nearest coffee house and in the near future a grocery in walking distance. The funky downtown coffee house with a great view of the railroad is a bit farther away.

I expect to get a lot of exercise preparing the new Victor E. Garden. It will be bigger than the old one, but I've got to start from scratch converting the mix of clay and compacted spoil that comprises my backyard. There won't be many food miles walking out back to harvest stuff.