- Local Harvest
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A directory of organic farms that grow and sell food in local areas. Search by farm, farmers markets, restaurants, and grocery.
www.localharvest.org
- FoodRoutes
Provides information on sustainable agriculture, grassfed and organic products, food safety, and the advantages of buying local food.
www.foodroutes.org
- Locavores
Group of concerned culinary adventurers making an effort to eat only foods grown within a 100-mile radius of San Francisco.
www.locavores.com
- eat local challenge
Group blog written by authors who are interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed.
www.eatlocalchallenge.com
- 100 Mile Diet: Local Eating for Global Change
Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon's site describing their experience in eating food only grown within a 100-mile radius of their home.
www.100milediet.org
- Wikipedia: Local Food
Overview of the local food movement, with links to related topics like bioregionalism, sustainable agriculture, and food miles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_food
- Wikipedia: Food Miles
Information about how many miles food travels from production to consumer, and its effect on cost and the environment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_miles
- Regional Farm and Food Project
A nonprofit local food project serving the Hudson-Mohawk Valley food shed of New York State.
www.farmandfood.org
- Food Miles Calculator
Information about food miles, and a calculator to see how far your food has traveled.
www.organiclinker.com/food-miles.cfm
- Deconstructing Dinner
Broadcasts on local food, bioregionalism, food miles, and conscientious eating.
www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner
- How to Eat Like a Locavore
Recipes and thoughts about cooking with and eating only locally grown food.
www.foodandwine.com/articles/how-to-eat-like-a-locavore
- Seeing Red: Eating Locally and Debunking the Red-Blue Divide
Barbara Kingsolver's account of her family's attempt to eat local food for a year.
www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/05/seeing_red.html
- The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet
TIME Magazine article on the benefits of local food -- from the environmental to the epicurean.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1200783-1,00.html
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