Websites for locating locally grown and produced food

Mixed greens harvested from our hoop house Wednesday!

A new year brings opportunity for a new understanding of food. If you begin to view food as the essential element in life you realize the greatest gift we have from creation is our food source.

Consider the importance of eating food grown locally. Some of the benefits are:
— not having food travel by truck or train hundreds of miles, wasting energy and fuel;
— knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown;
— and money from your food budget goes to your local growers as opposed to a major food corporation.

Do what you can do
Thinking only one person has no impact can be an excuse to ignore the issues. Even if you only make one or two changes in the way you look at food in 2011, that is what you can do.

Helpful websites
Don't know where to start or how to take it up a notch? To locate farmers’ markets, family farms and other sustainably grown food in your area go to www.localharvest.org.

Find sustainable meat, dairy and egg products at www.eatwellguide.org.