Resources
Localharvest.org is a national directory of local food, not unlike this one. Except it’s national and a strange place, then, to build local networks. But a lot of producers, restaurants and shoppes are listed there. You can search by zip code. We’ve found it very useful while traveling.
FarmFresh.org, A Rhode Island-based directory that looks and functions a lot like LocalHarvest. Useful for traveling New England.
Buylocalfood.org, aka CISA (Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture) is a pioneer organization promoting local food systems around the country. They’re based in South Deerfield and their site offers a searchable database for food sources as well as a comprehensive picture of how this kind of organizing works.
The Federation of Mass. Farmers Markets is another excellent place to go — a full directory for all of the markets happening all around the state.
Our friends in other parts of New England
- Berkshire Grown
- Greater Newburyport Local Food Network
- Buy Fresh, North of Boston
- Seacoast (NH) Eat Local
- Mad River Valley Localvore Project (Vt)
- Central Vermont Localvores
- Massachusetts Local Food Coop
Blogs we like
- Boston Test Kitchen
- Boston Green Living
- Cuisine En Locale
- Diary of a (Cape Cod) Locavore
- Eat Boutique
- Eyes Wide Stomach
- Food on the Food
- Feed Me Like You Mean It
- Food in Boston
- Grow.Cook.Eat.
- GoodEater.org
- Know Your Food, Boston
- Kombucha Fuel
- Laurel the Larder
- La Vida Locavore
- Local is Better
- Lovely Locavore Ladies
- Public Radio Kitchen
- Slow Food Boston
Books you should read
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan (but anything really by him)
- In Defense of Foodalso by Michael Pollan
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Ellix Katz
- Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel
- The End of Food by Paul Roberts
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson