HEALTHY LIVINGHEALTH EVENTS■ IMAGINE online auction

Through April, bid on auction items
for Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry
to raise money for AIDS awareness.
Bid at imagine.cmarket.com.

■ Parent and family health event

Enjoy yoga, dance classes andmore. Starts at 6 p.m. today at
Shadd Elementary School, 5601
East Capitol St. SE, Washington.
Child care is provided. Event is at 6p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday.
For more information, visit dc.gov.

■ Health day

The Fit 2 Live Community HealthDay starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at
the Turkey Thicket Playground, 1100
Michigan Ave. NE, Washington.
The event will feature an obstacle
course, a 3K Fun Run/Walk, healthscreenings, physical fitness tests
and demonstrations. Visit dc.gov formore information.

■ Body Well Nutrition event
Meet a nutrition specialist and learn
more about sports nutrition at theBody Well Nutrition event at noon
Saturday at the Vitamin Shoppe,Rockville. Visit vitaminshoppe.com
for directions and more information.
■ Health event

The Holy Name Catholic Church
is sponsoring an informational
health event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
June 6 and June 13 at 920 11th
St. NE, Washington. There will befree kidney screenings, as well as
information on diabetes, cancer,
Alzheimer’s and more. Free to thepublic. Call 202-397-2525, visit
kidneyfund.org/get-tested or e-mailtstewart@kidneyfund.org for more
information.

Volunteer opportunities■ Unity Health Care

Unity Health Care Inc. is seeking
volunteer patient greeters who willassist in facilitating consumer-centered care for patients. For hours,
e-mail volunteer@unityhealthcare.org or call 202-715-7977. Unity
Health Care, 1220 12th St. SE, Suite120, Washington.

■ Hospice of the Chesapeakein Anne Arundel County
Outgoing people are needed to help
staff the Hospice Information Boothat various health fairs and community events in both Anne Arundeland Prince George’s counties.
E-mail kbourgard@hospicechesapeake.org or call 443-8371549. Hospice of the Chesapeake,8724 Jericho City Drive, Landover;
445 Defense Highway, Annapolis.
CONTACTE-mail sschwartz@washington
examiner.com.

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COOKING with Kerry Dunnington

Supporting local farmersreduces carbon footprint

It happens every time I’m inthe grocery store, people filling their carts with fruits andvegetables that aren’t in season. The urge to tap them on theshoulder and fire off my thoughts
about the benefits of eating foods intheir growing season and the powerful effect it has on our environment
abandons me.
While I’m an advocate, I neverseem to drum up the courage totell a perfect stranger the food he’s
putting in his cart has traveled thousands and thousands of miles. I’ve
rehearsed the story a million times— do you know those peppers you
are about to put in your cart have
traveled from either South America
or Holland; the asparagus you’recontemplating hails from Peru;
the strawberries from California;
and those tomatoes flew in fromMexico?
I’ve often wondered, if grocery
store produce departments offeredfrequent flier miles for fruits andvegetables purchased within a given
year, which would accumulate thelargest number of miles? Asparagus,(one of the biggest food mile defenders) generally logs more miles in aweek than commercial airline pilots!
By the time this delicate vegetablefinds its way into your grocery store
cart, it’s traveled the globe and lost
most of its nutrients with each passing mile.
This is true for most of the produce we purchase from the grocery
store. As the crow flies, Peru isapproximately 3,500 miles fromthe mid-Atlantic, China 7,500 and
California 3,000! The fresh produce
you buy may look as if it stands up
to such vigorous travel itineraries,
but from a nutritional standpoint it
doesn’t.
Recently I read if everyone in
the United States ate locally grown
foods only 10 percent of the time,
we could save every small farmerin this country! That’s one meal outof every 10 meals or a meal threedays a month!
To protect, preserve and honor
our local agriculture, we need toreverse the buying trend. To do thisand to prevent the carbon footprint,(carbon footprint is a measure of theeffect on the environment in termsof the amount of greenhouse gases
produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide) from having more of aneffect on our environment, we needto buy food from local farmers. By
doing so we are supporting our communities, and eating the freshest andmost flavorful food at the peak of its
harvest with the most nutrients.
Kerry Dunnington is a food columnist andauthor of “This Book Cooks.” She can bereached at thisbookcooks@verizon.net.

Washington, D.C.,
Farmers Markets
Adams Morgan Farmers Market
Columbia Road and 18th Street NW
8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturdays, May 6 to Dec. 23
Anacostia Farmers Market
14th Street between U and V streets SE
3 to 7 p.m.
Wednesdays, June 7 to Nov. 15
Chevy Chase Farmers Market
5701 Broad Branch Road(Lafayette School parking lot)
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturdays, April 29 to Nov. 25
Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market
20th and Q streets NW
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Sundays, year-round
Eastern Market
Outdoor Farmers Market
225 Seventh St. SE
7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays, year-round
Foggy Bottom FreshFarm Market
I Street between New Hampshire
Avenue and 24th Street NW
3 to 7 p.m.
Wednesdays, through Nov. 15
H Street FreshFarm Market
600 block of H Street NE
9 a.m. to noon
Saturdays, May 6 to Oct. 28
Historic Brookland Farmers Market
12th and Newton streets
12th Street: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sundays, May 7 to Oct. 29
10th and Otis streets NE
10th Street: 4 to 7 p.m.
Tuesdays, May 9 to Oct. 24
Mount Pleasant Farmers Market
17th and Lamont streets NW(Lamont Plaza)
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Saturdays, May 6 to Nov. 18

New Morning Farmers Market
36th Street and Alton Place NW(Sheridan School parking lot)
8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturdays,
June 3 to mid-March; 4 to 8 p.m.
Tuesdays, June 6 to Sept. 26
Penn Quarter FreshFarm Market
Eighth and D streets NW
3 to 7 p.m.
Thursdays, through Nov. 16
USDA Farmers Market
400 Seventh St. SW (Department ofTransportation plaza level)
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesdays, May 16 to Nov. 21
USDA Farmers Market,
Department of Agriculture
12th Street andIndependence Avenue SW
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Fridays, June 2 to Oct. 27
Ward 8 Farmers Market
Martin Luther King Jr.
and Alabama avenues SE
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturdays, June 3 to Nov. 18
All Souls Farmers Market
2300 Cathedral Ave. NW(in parking lot behind All Souls
Memorial Episcopal Church,
entrance on Woodley Place)
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Saturdays, May 6 to Dec. 16
Rose Park Farmers Market
26th and O streets NW
4 to 7 p.m.
Wednesdays,through Oct. 25

Northern Virginia
Farmers Markets
Arlington Farmers Market
North Courthouse Road and North
14th Street (adjacent to the Arlington County Courthouse parking lot)
8 a.m. to noon
through December
9 a.m. to noon
January to mid-April
Clarendon Alliance Markets
2531 Wilson Boulevard(Clarendon Metro Station)
2 to 7 p.m.
Wednesdays, year round
Clarendon Courthouse
Farmers Market
8 a.m. to noon, through November(Courthouse parking lot)
Rosslyn Farmers
and Artists’ Market
1911 N. Fort Myer Drive,
Suite LL10
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursdays, May 15 to Oct. 23
Alexandria Farmers Market
301 King St.
City Hall (Old Town)
5:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Saturdays, year-round
Del Ray Farmers Market
East Oxford andMount Vernon avenues
8 a.m. to noon
Saturdays, through Dec. 2
Fairfax Farmers Markets
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