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For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams and springs and fountains issuing from plain and hill; a land of wheat and barley, of vines, figs, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey; a land where you may eat food without stint, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from who hills you can mine copper. When you have eaten your fill, give thanks to the Lord your God for the good land which God has given you. [JPS translation. Edited for gender neutrality]

1. What are the benefits of knowing the array of local foods in Israel? Why is the produce of the Land of Israel one of the key things we are told about?
2. What does this text teach about eating locally and the benefits being in a place where "you will lack nothing?"
3. Do you feel in your own community that you "lack nothing," in terms of available foods? Do you still import ingredients?