RESOURCES
A selection of resources for finding real food and eating locally:
Damrosch, Barbara. The Garden Primer: Second Edition (New York: Workman, 2008).
Edible Communities. A network of excellent local magazines on local food. For more information: www.ediblecommunities.com.
Gussow, Joan Dye. This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2001).
Jeavons, John. How to Grow More Vegetables (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2006).
Kingsolver, Barbara, et al. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2007).
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2007).
Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmer’s Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002).
Nabhan, Gary Paul. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002).
Peterson, John, and Angelic Organics. Farmer John’s Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables (Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2006).
Salatin, Joel. Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm-Fresh Food (Swoope, VA: Polyface, 2006).
WEB
Center for Informed Food Choices (www.informedeating.org) advocates for a diet based on whole, unprocessed, local, organically grown plant foods; their Web site contains a useful FAQ page about food politics and eating well in addition to an archive of relevant articles.
Eat Local Challenge (www.eatlocalchallenge.com) offers resources and encouragement for people trying to eat locally.
Eat Well (www.eatwellguide.com) is an online directory of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs. Enter your zip code to find healthful, humane, and ecofriendly products from farms, stores, and restaurants in your area.
Eat Wild (www.eatwild.com) lists local suppliers for grass-fed meat and dairy products.
Food Routes (www.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.”
Local Harvest (www.localharvest.com) helps you connect with local farmers, CSAs, and farmers’ markets.
Weston A. Price Foundation (www.westonaprice.org) is an archive of information on the sorts of traditional whole-food diets advocated by Weston A. Price. Local chapters are good resources on where to find some of the best pastured animal foods.