For environmental consultant Kevin Eisen and his wife Emily, local food is “part of the fabric of who we are.” He’s not kidding. Local food is even in their blood: Emily’s father raises bees, makes his own wine, and has a large garden whose produce he shares with the couple. In addition to buying grass-fed beef from a friend of the family’s farm, the couple are exploring ways to purchase shares in another local farm’s harvest (called buying a CSA), and they have turned part of their backyard into a vegetable garden, although as Eisen says, they’re pretty far from self-sufficient. “We’ve got a typical city lot,” he said. “We’ve got a large family, and [the garden] doesn’t come close to feeding us.”