Locally Grown

 More about EatLocally

How it Works

What is eatlocalgrown?

The eatlocalgrown project is a crowd-sourced community driven tool that helps you find, rate and share locally grown food.

There are categories for:

• farms
• farmers markets
• restaurants
• grocery/co-ops

And also all kinds of artisans like butchers and cheesmakers.

Another GREAT VIDEO!

Did you know that many of the Community Gardens that work with the Community Food Network allow volunteers to take home a certain amount of the produce grown? 

To find a map of local community gardens, food pantries, and food resources visit the Community Food Network's MAP

To find a Farmer's Market near you visit http://www.westmichiganfarmermarkets.org/

The Scarecrow (Chipotle Commercial) Have you seen "The Scarecrow"? It's a 3 minute short film / commercial from the Mexican themed Chipotle Restaurant chain that beautifully illustrates the horrors of industrial raised animals for food. The restaurant chain has a made a big push to support humanely raised, locally grown food and vows to eliminate as much GMO food from their menu as possible...

Window Farms: How to Grow a Garden in your Apartment Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.