Anchorage Daily News

Straight from the cow

Daily News reporter Stephanie Komarnitsky and her husband, photographer Stephen Nowers, tried to eat only locally grown and raised food for a week. Can two grocery-store addicts embrace an all-Alaska diet? See what they found out. In part three of four, they go in search of local milk.

Weston A. Price Foundation Web site

Should raw milk be illegal?

Windsong Farm's Condo Cow

U.S. FDA 2003 opposition paper to drinking raw milk

Taste test

Daily News reporter Stephanie Komarnitsky and her husband, photographer Stephen Nowers, tried to eat only locally grown and raised food for a week. Can two grocery-store addicts embrace an all-Alaska diet? See what they found out. In Part 4 of four, the c

How much is quality food worth?

Triple D Hatchery

Farm fresh

Daily News reporter Stephanie Komarnitsky and her husband, photographer Stephen Nowers, tried to eat only locally grown and raised food for a week. In part two of four, their family hunts down Valley produce.

What do you eat locally?

Arctic Organics

Resources

Farmers, buyers, state and university officials and other information outlets helped in the research of this series.

Eating 'local' can mean next door or miles away

WASILLA -- Type the phrase "local food" into an Internet search engine and you'll get a cascade of hits from sites advertising local food festivals to an ever-growing number of eat-local challenges. But just what does the "local" in eating local mean?