EatWellGuide.org: Your local directory for sustainable food
Excellent online reference for local (USA) "sustainable" restaurants, food stores, farms and the like. Just type in your zip code and get rolling...
If you're like me, you care about where you food comes from, the quality of the ingredients, how they're prepared, and if those preparing it are working with a conscience for health, the environment, animals, and their customers.
Enter EatWellGuide.org. It's not fully comprehensive, but it's about the best you can get when it comes to trying to find restaurants and health food stores in your immediate area. Just type in your zip code and go. If you're really serious about knowing your food source, they also profile local farms, what they produce, and their farming practices.
All this is part of a larger project by the good folks at The Sustainable Table. Their mission:
Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food.Sustainable Table was created in 2003 by the nonprofit organization the GrassRoots Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) to help consumers understand the problems with our food supply and offer viable solutions and alternatives. Rather than be overwhelmed by the problems created by our industrial agricultural system, Sustainable Table celebrates the joy of food and eating.
In short, they rock. And their website is chock full of information if you'd like to learn more. Recently, their online animated shorts about the meat industry have been winning interactive awards - I too am a [Adobe] Flash designer - their work is good.
Try it out, send your comments, add listings - vote with your fork!
Comments
eatwellguide.org is awesome! I just settled into my new office digs and this was the first place I went to when getting familiar with the new neighborhood.
Posted by: silvio | May 25, 2007 01:17 PM