Eat Well Guide

in People – Places – Products (Fresh Cooking)
Tags: csa, local food, organic, sustainable food

The Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada.

Eat Well’s thousands of listings include family farms, restaurants, farmers’ markets, grocery stores, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, U-pick orchards and more.  Users can search by location, keyword, category or product to find good food, download customized guides, or plan a trip with the innovative mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere. Eat Well is also home to The Green Fork blog and the free educational booklet Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement.

The Eat Well Guide was initially created by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) as a directory of sustainably produced animal products.  IATP later joined forces with Sustainable Table on the project. The Eat Well Guide in its current form, which includes all types of food products, launched in 2003, along with The Meatrix, a critically acclaimed Flash animation series about the dangers of factory farming. Eat Well emerged as an independent program in 2007.

Eat Well and its sister programs, Sustainable Table, The Meatrix, Healthy Monday, H20 Conserve, and Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) promote community-based sustainable practices for the production and consumption of food, water and energy. Working with research, policy, consumer and grassroots communities, the programs raise public awareness and advance policies that support an economically and environmentally viable future.

We especially like their Seasonal Food Guides and the great recipes from The Sustainable Table. Buon Appetito! And let us know what you’ve found that’s particularly useful.