I like their tag line, 'Real Food, real farmers, real community'
Throughout the USA is a demanding task but somehow they seem to do it so well. It seems we can't even organise London wide!
It's not that places, people, the will, does not exist. Just look at the interest in Transition network.
The best organic food is what's grown closest to you.
Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area,
where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies. Want to support this great web site? Shop in
our catalog for things you can't find locally!
About LocalHarvest
LocalHarvest is America's #1 organic and local food website. We maintain a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Our search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area. Our online store helps small farms develop markets for some of their products beyond their local area. Check out what our members are saying.The richness, variety, and flavor of our communities, food systems, and diets is in jeopardy. The exclusive focus on economic efficiency has brought us low prices and convenience through large supermarkets chains, agribusiness and factory farms, while taking away many other aspects of our food lives, like our personal relation with our food and with the people who produce it. More and more people are realizing this and actively working to turn the tide and to preserve a food industry based on family-owned, small scale businesses. They are our best guarantee against a world of styrofoam-like long-shelf-life tomatoes and diets dictated from corporate boardrooms. The Buy Local movement is quickly taking us beyond the promise of environmental responsibility that the organic movement delivered, and awakening the US to the importance of community, variety, humane treatment of farm animals, and social and environmental responsibility in regards to our food economy.
Who Are We?
LocalHarvest was founded in 1998, and is now the number one informational resource for the Buy Local movement and the top place on the Internet where people find information on direct marketing family farms. We now have more than 20000 members, and are growing by about 20 new members every day. Through our servers, our website and those of our partners serve about three and a half million page views per month to the public interested in buying food from family farms. LocalHarvest is located in Santa Cruz, California, and was founded by Guillermo Payet, a software engineer and activist dedicated to generating positive social change through the Internet.You Can Help
You can participate in our building process by encouraging your farmer, market manager, and restauranteur friends to visit localharvest.org and sign themselves up!If you are a Sustainable Agriculture or Family Farming group, contact us to discuss how we can partner together in support of your work.
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