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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Search Database For Local Food, Wine, More

To find a farm or farmers market by day of the week, location, Zip code or product (such as herbs, garlic, tomatoes and/or fiber), make tracks to www.farmfresh.org, a super-efficient search engine paired with acres of useful information and a clickable Google map. Categories from the Local Food Guide site range from “pick your own” to “fun on the farm” and community supported agriculture lists – and make choosing local foods to go a snap – dairy, cheeses – even pick food by the way it is grown.

At a special event (and making notes),
CCC Feed & Farmstand Market, Manchester, CT.

There’s even a section for business and institutional buyers and farms that deliver. Did we mention recipes? And a Google sites community bulletin board for jobs and swaps? The Local Food Guide is a “non-profit collaboration to strengthen the local food systems of Southern New England.”