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When New Hampshire families and friends sit down to their Thanksgiving dinners tomorrow, most of the ingredients for that meal will have traveled over a thousand miles to get to the table.

And because it travels such distances, the food we buy can have a big impact on the environment.

But a movement is growing across the country that encourages people to look for local ingredients for their meals.

Dustin Dwyer tried to find out how practical that could be as he prepared for his Thanksgiving feast:

She's known for appealing to President Lincoln to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday and for writing Mary Had a Little Lamb, but New Hampshire's own Sarah Josepha Hale was also a writer and editor, strongly believed in the "New England Way of Life" and thought that women should not vote and should stay out of politics. As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, we'll learn more about who Sarah Josepha Hale was, what her impact was on New England and the other lesser known things she did in her lifetime. Laura's guests are Stu Wallace, Associate Professor of History at the New Hampshire Institute of Technology and Liz Wright, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communications at Rivier College.