Local Harvest - Shop Locally, Think Globally

About LocalHarvest

LocalHarvest is America's #1 organic and local food website that maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Their search engine helps people find products from family farms and local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area.

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 are 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 U.S. 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. Through their servers, website and websites of their partners they serve about one and a half million page views per month to the public interested in buying food from family farms.

You Can Help

First and foremost, be sure to type in the zip code where you live or the zip code of any area you will be visiting to find the best local farmers markets, farm stands, food co-ops, or U-Pick farms to purchase your fruits, vegetables, meats, soaps, etc.

You can also participate in LocalHarvest’s building process by encouraging your farmer, market manager, and restauranteur friends to visit localharvest.org and sign themselves up!

Finally, if you are a Sustainable Agriculture or Family Farming group, contact LocalHarvest to discuss how they can partner with you in support of your work.

For more information, be sure to visit http://www.localharvest.org.

(Most of the above info was gathered from the LocalHarvest website)