Michaell Pollan (author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food) wrote an open letter to the future president of the United States entitled Farmer in Chief  outlining some great ideas for improving our food system locally, nationally and globally. The article was published in the October 9, 2008 edition of the New York Times Magazine's Food Issue (there are several other interesting articles as well).

Plain Dealer reporter, Michelle Jarboe, visited us at Tower City for a FarmShare delivery day a few weeks ago and published an article about our company in the business section on August 20, 2008. Click here to read the article.

According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, who selected the word locavore as its word of the year in 2007, a locavore is a person who seeks out locally produced food.

Wikipedia defines a locavore like this...

A locavore is someone who eats food grown or produced locally or within a certain radius such as 50, 100, or 150 miles. The locavore movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to produce their own food, with the argument that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locally grown food is an environmentally friendly means of obtaining food, since supermarkets that import their food use more fossil fuels and non-renewable resources. 'Locavore' was coined by Jessica Prentice from the San Francisco Bay Area on the occasion of World Environment Day 2005 to describe and promote the practice of eating a diet consisting of food harvested from within an area most commonly bound by a 100 mile radius. "Localvore" is sometimes also used... The local foods movement is gaining momentum as people discover that the best-tasting and most sustainable choices are foods that are fresh, seasonal, and grown close to home. Some locavores draw inspiration from the 100-Mile Diet or from advocates of local eating like Barbara Kingsolver whose book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle chronicles her family's attempts to eat locally. Others just follow their taste buds to farmers' markets, community supported agriculture programs, and community gardens.

Locavores are in the news once again... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?_r=1&oref=slogin. We grow more inspired each time we read articles like this one that tell the story of innovative new strategies for strengthening our local food communities. This is what it's all about. Local eaters, gardeners and farmers working together to eat better!