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August 5, 2009

Local Harvest

Local Harvest

Looking for organic food sources in your area?

Check out the Local Harvest Web site.

Plug in your zipcode, and a list and a map will pop up, showing you where small farms, restaurants or farmers' markets are located. It will also help you find CSAs, co-ops and on-line stores.

I punched in my zip and got 54 listings. There are reviews of some of the listings as well. It appears to be pretty accurate for my neighborhood.

This is how the Web site describes its origins:

'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 about 17000 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."

Check it out and let me know what you think.

 

Posted by Susan Reimer at 7:00 AM | | Comments (2)
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Oh my goodness! The Local Harvest website is THE ONE I've been looking for since we (recently) moved here. The Baltimore City farmer's market directory has only 10 listings... The Harvest page gave me more than 25 places for my zip code, plus CSA's! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

We here at Garden Variety are always glad to help!!!--Susan

What a great bit of information that can help people all around the country. What a great way to get the fresh grown food. It tastes so good.

Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

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About Susan Reimer
Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.
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