Resources

Finding Local Seasonal Food:

• Buy Fresh, Buy Local – Connecting consumers  in communities throughout the country to the freshest, most delicious  locally grown and produced foods available.
• Eat Well Guide – a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada.
• Local Harvest -Find farmers markets,  family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area.
• Seeds of Change – Organic gardening and  seeds.
• Seasonal Ingredient Map – Interactive map to see what’s in season in your area.
• Eat Wild – Nationwide directory of pasture raised natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry,  pork, dairy and other wild edibles.

Buying Guides:

• Greener Choices Eco-Labels -  Learn  what the labels on your favorite products really mean.
• Environmental Working Group – Organic buying guide to pesticide levels on produce.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium – Seafood Watch online, pocket and mobile buying guides.
• Good Guide – the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products.

Activism:

• Slow Food International – A non-profit,  eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989  to counteract fast food and fast life.
• Slow Food USA – the American arm of Slow Food International.
• Food Not Lawns – Turning yards into gardens, and neighborhoods into communities.

Canning & Preserving:

• Canning Across America – a nationwide, ad hoc collective of cooks, gardeners and food lovers committed to the revival of the lost art of “putting up” food.
• National Center for Home Food Preservation – source for current research-based recommendations for most methods of home food preservation
• Punk Domestics – preserving: culture & community.

Blogs:

• New Green – Sustainability for Everyone – Zack Luby’s thoughts on living a sustainable life.
• Small Measure – By Ashley English: Making an  attempt to craft a good life in a small mountain community
• Retrovore – Dedicated to the notion that  we can live well without living large.

Movies:

• Fresh: The movie -  A film that celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system.
• What’s “Organic” About Organic? – A film that delves into the debates that arise when a grassroots agricultural movement evolves into a booming international market.
• King Corn – Two recent college grads discover where America’s food comes from when they plant a single acre of corn and follow it from the seed to the dinner plate.
• The Botany of Desire – a two-hour PBS documentary based on the best-selling book by Michael Pollan, takes us on an eye-opening exploration of our relationship with the plant world – seen from the plants’ point of view.