For anyone who doesn't have access to a local farmers market, I urge you to check out Local Harvest Many people are surprised to find out about local farms and markets they didn't know about.
If live in california, then you have no excuse, you should be able to eat almost exclusively local and organic! Here is a list of California farmers markets
So why eat local? For so many reasons, here are just a few...
-The less distance your food has to travel to get onto your plate the fresher it can be, which means NO gassing, early picking, added chemicals, waxes. Less exposure to exhaust and other pollutants from transportation, less hands have touched your food, less processing...
-You can usually trace the food right back to the farmer, espeically if you buy directly from them, and find out exactly how it was grown.
-Its CHEAP!! Even organic is significantly cheaper when bought locally
-Your money is going back to the community, instead of to some corporate suits - u know who you are supporting!
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Center for Informed Food Choices (informedeating.org)
advocates a diet based on whole, unprocessed, local,
organically grown plant foods; its Web site contains a
useful F.A.Q. page about food politics and eating
well, as well as an archive of relevant articles.
Eat Well (eatwellguide.com) is an online directory of
sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggs.
Enter your ZIP Code to find healthful, humane and
eco-friendly products from farms, stores and
restaurants in your area.
Eat Wild (eatwild.com) lists local suppliers for
grass-fed meat and dairy products.
Food Routes (foodroutes.org) is a national nonprofit
dedicated to “reintroducing Americans to their food —
the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it
and the routes that carry it from the fields to our
tables.”
Heritage Foods USA (heritagefoodsusa.com) sells
mail-order ‘traceable’ products from small farms —
maple syrup, pole-caught tuna, grass-fed Kobe beef —
whose labels provide every detail about how they were
produced.
Just Food (justfood.org) works to develop a just and
sustainable food system in the New York City region
through projects including City Farms (a New York
community garden program) and community supported
agriculture (which connects regional farmers with
produce-hungry city dwellers).
Local Harvest (localharvest.org) offers a definitive
and reliable nationwide directory of C.S.A.’s,
farmers’ markets, family farms and other local food
sources.
Locavores (locavores.com), based in San Francisco,
encourages people to eat only foods produced within a
100-mile radius of home. Their Food Web page offers an
abundance of additional resources, including books,
articles and Web sites.
Organic Consumers Association (organicconsumers.org),
a research and action center for the organic and
fair-trade food movement, maintains a comprehensive
Web archive of articles about genetically engineered
foods, cloning, food safety, organics and
globalization.
Seafood Watch (mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp) — a
program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise
consumer awareness about the importance of buying
seafood from sustainable sources — offers a
downloadable, pocket-sized, region-by-region guide to
eco-friendly seafood.
Slow Food USA (slowfoodusa.org) is a nonprofit
educational organization dedicated to ecologically
sound land stewardship and food production and to
living a “slower and more harmonious” life.
Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture
(stonebarnscenter.org) is a hands-on educational
center and restaurant that aims to demonstrate, teach
and promote sustainable, community-based food
production on a working farm 30 miles from Manhattan.
Sustainable Table (sustainabletable.org) offers an
introduction to the sustainable food movement and the
issues surrounding it, plus resources for further
investigation (the links for ‘Introduction to
Sustainability’ and ‘The Issues’ are good places to
start).
The U.S.D.A. Agricultural Marketing Service
(ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets) includes a
state-by-state listing of farmers’ markets across the
United States.
THANKS ELAD FOR THE INFO
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