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On this week’s Treehugger Simran Sethi sits down with Alisa Smith and JB MacKinnon to talk about 100milediet.org and its position at the forefront of the "Locavore" revolution, their book Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally, and the ongoing organic versus local (non-)debate: "Really the system to shoot for is local. Organics will follow, whether certified or not, because almost any small farmer both doesn’t want to use chemicals and doesn’t have to. When you have a wide variety of crops growing  in a really small area, they’re not susceptible to pests in the same way that 10,000 acres of wheat are." LISTEN (9 min)