Becoming a locavore

I am a mother of an 8 month baby girl with quite an appetite...she loves everything and anything I eat, she must eat too. In the last couple months, as her culinary palette has expanded to include my food, I have found myself re-evaluating the food I eat. It turns out there is a lot of food in my diet that I refuse to let my perfect baby girl have. She came in to this world preservative and chemical free and that is how I would like to keep her! I started researching and came across a plethora of information about sustainable food (aka locavorism, slow food movement, etc.). I recently viewed the documentary "Food, Inc." and I have being reading "The Locavore's Handbook" by Leda Meredith and although I'm only 4 chapters in (you try leisure reading with an 8 month old), I'm intrigued. I am by no means an 'all or nothing' personality and so I am starting small, finding out what changes I can reasonably make in my family's life to live a healthier life (personally and environmentally) and this is my about what I find out.