{"id":59,"date":"2006-05-23T07:26:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T14:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/local-food-more-important-than-organic-food\/"},"modified":"2006-05-23T07:26:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T14:26:37","slug":"local-food-more-important-than-organic-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/local-food-more-important-than-organic-food","title":{"rendered":"Local Food More Important Than Organic Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/2006\/05\/no_bar_code.html\">here<\/a> about why purchasing food from local sources may be more important than purchasing organic food (important in terms of sustainable agricultural and economic systems, fighting the Wal-Mart syndrome, etc.). I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention here that the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/longmontfarmers.com\/\">farmer&#8217;s market<\/a> near us opened recently. This will be the third season we&#8217;ve enjoyed its presence; once again we&#8217;ll buy our (organic and local) lettuce, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, broccoli, basil, spinach, and probably some stuff I&#8217;m forgetting (kale! carrots!) from there until late October. Here are the vendors we purchase from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pachamamafarm.com\/index.html\">Pachamama Organic Farm<\/a><br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyacre.com\/Produce.html\">Honeyacre Produce<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.styria.us\/\">Syria Bakery<\/a> (newcomers this year, and boy, is their bread good!)<\/li>\n<li>Some other Longmont farm whose name I can&#8217;t remember, but they have a big booth at the end away from the buildings; they haven&#8217;t arrived yet since it&#8217;s still pretty early in the season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding local sources of food, here is a list of resources. I&#8217;m shamelessly stealing this text from another article written by the same author as the one above, and I&#8217;m not going through and fixing all of the hyperlinks, so you&#8217;ll have to copy and paste them yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Center for Informed Food Choices (informedeating.org) advocates a diet based on  whole, unprocessed, local, organically grown plant foods; its Web site contains  a useful F.A.Q. page about food politics and eating well, as well as an archive  of relevant articles.<\/p>\n<p>Eat Well (eatwellguide.com) is an online directory  of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggs. Enter your ZIP Code to find  healthful, humane and eco-friendly products from farms, stores and restaurants  in your area.<\/p>\n<p>Eat Wild (eatwild.com) lists local suppliers for grass-fed  meat and dairy products.<\/p>\n<p>Food Routes (foodroutes.org) is a national  nonprofit dedicated to \u201creintroducing Americans to their food \u2014 the seeds it  grows from, the farmers who produce it and the routes that carry it from the  fields to our tables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Foods USA (heritagefoodsusa.com) sells  mail-order \u2018traceable\u2019 products from small farms \u2014 maple syrup, pole-caught  tuna, grass-fed Kobe beef \u2014 whose labels provide every detail about how they  were produced.<\/p>\n<p>Just Food (justfood.org) works to develop a just and  sustainable food system in the New York City region through projects including  City Farms (a New York community garden program) and community supported  agriculture (which connects regional farmers with produce-hungry city  dwellers).<\/p>\n<p>Local Harvest (localharvest.org) offers a definitive and  reliable nationwide directory of C.S.A.\u2019s, farmers\u2019 markets, family farms and  other local food sources.<\/p>\n<p>Locavores (locavores.com), based in San  Francisco, encourages people to eat only foods produced within a 100-mile radius  of home. Their Food Web page offers an abundance of additional resources,  including books, articles and Web sites.<\/p>\n<p>Organic Consumers Association  (organicconsumers.org), a research and action center for the organic and  fair-trade food movement, maintains a comprehensive Web archive of articles  about genetically engineered foods, cloning, food safety, organics and  globalization.<\/p>\n<p>Seafood Watch (mbayaq.org\/cr\/seafoodwatch.asp) \u2014 a program  of the Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the  importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources \u2014 offers a downloadable,  pocket-sized, region-by-region guide to eco-friendly seafood.<\/p>\n<p>Slow Food  USA (slowfoodusa.org) is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to  ecologically sound land stewardship and food production and to living a \u201cslower  and more harmonious\u201d life.<\/p>\n<p>Stone Barns Center for Food &#038; Agriculture  (stonebarnscenter.org) is a hands-on educational center and restaurant that aims  to demonstrate, teach and promote sustainable, community-based food production  on a working farm 30 miles from Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable Table  (sustainabletable.org) offers an introduction to the sustainable food movement  and the issues surrounding it, plus resources for further investigation (the  links for \u2018Introduction to Sustainability\u2019 and \u2018The Issues\u2019 are good places to  start).<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.D.A. Agricultural Marketing Service  (ams.usda.gov\/farmersmarkets) includes a state-by-state listing of farmers\u2019  markets across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article here about why purchasing food from local sources may be more important than purchasing organic food (important in terms of sustainable agricultural and economic systems, fighting the Wal-Mart syndrome, etc.). I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention here that the farmer&#8217;s market near us opened recently. This will be the third season we&#8217;ve&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/23\/local-food-more-important-than-organic-food\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local Food More Important Than Organic Food?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}