This page is dedicated to providing links to websites that offer information about slow food, the eating thereof and making slowness a priority when it comes to food and eating. These folks, in the main, are way more dedicated to it than I am, which can be good and bad but they're generally very committed to providing good content. Eventually I hope to have a section for slow food in general and another section focused on the Austin food scene. I'm leaving comments open on this page, mainly to allow people to add links they find helpful and as I see them, I'll add them to the main list.
A lot of the websites listed here come courtesy of the listing in Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. And see, I appreciate her efforts so much she got the first link! In addition to links I've found thanks to Ms. Kingsolver, there are also a lot of sites I've either found on my own or through the web-like web of connections that is the world wide web. Wait, that's all redundant. Well, you get the idea. Some are links I stumbled across, others are ones that friends or other bloggers directed me to, others are so ubiquitous that I couldn't have avoided them if I'd tried. A lot of these are sources I use in my every day blogging so if you read them regularly, you can just cut me out of the loop. But I'd rather you didn't. It's nice to have you stop by.
(Descriptions below are self-descriptions, usually from "About Us" pages)
Sustainable Food and Eating
Local Harvest: LocalHarvest is America's #1 organic and local food
website. We maintain a definitive and reliable "living" public
nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local
food sources. Our search engine helps people find products from family
farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to
establish direct contact with small farms in their local area. Our
online store helps small farms develop markets for some of their
products beyond their local area.
Food Routes: Website not respoonsive when I published this list
Slow Food International: Slow Food USA seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the
food system. We reconnect Americans with the people, traditions,
plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food. We
inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and
market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure
in the food we eat.
USDA Food and Nutrition Service: No one should go hungry
in America. FNS provides children
and low-income people access to food, a
healthful diet, and nutrition education. We help
nearly one in five people. Check
out our programs to see if we
can help you or your family.
The Community Food Security Coalition: We seek to develop
self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to
create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making
available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in
the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability.
Sustainable Table: Sustainable Table celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to
build community through food.
The Sierra Club Sustainable Consumption Committee: To encourage people to think about the environmental impacts of their consumption choices by providing specific information.
Edible Communities: We believe that every person has the right to affordable, fresh,
healthful food on a daily basis and that knowing where our food comes
from is a powerful thing.
The National Farm to School Network: Farm to School programs are popping up all over the U.S. These programs
connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy
meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing
health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime,
and supporting local small farmers.
Local Food Works (UK): The Soil Association's local food team is working to reverse this
trend. We aim to see increased production, processing, marketing and
consumption of local and organic food to create thriving local food
economies.
Eat Wild: Eatwild.com is your source for safe, healthy, natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, dairy and other wild edibles.
Eat Well Guide: Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants, and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food. Originally a database of sustainably-raised meat and dairy producers, its listings have expanded to include farmers' markets, CSA programs, partner organizations, water-conscious ratings and vegetarian eateries.
The Ethicurean: Someone who seeks out tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical — SOLE food, for short.
Chews Wise: I started ChewsWise for a simple reason: I wanted to keep spreading the
word on organic and sustainable food. Having finished my book, Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew,
in 2006, I had a lot of sources in the food world, from farmers and
chefs to company executives. Since I was still hearing interesting
tidbits from them, I figured it was time to start a blog and bring
others into the conversation.
Eat Local Challenge: EatLocalChallenge.com is a group blog written by authors who are interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed.
Sustainable Food and Growing
The Rodale Institute: Rodale Institute is putting its 60 years of sustainable farming experience and extensive research to work to provide farmers with the know-how, tools and techniques they need to succeed; policy-makers the information they need to best support our farmers; and consumers with the resources they need to make informed decisions about the food they buy and eat.
Austin Area Farm Websites
Today we intensively cultivate the urban farm and also our country farm. At the Gause farm, we grow our main tomato crop, potatoes, onions, hard squash, summer squash, and other items we need in abundance. Specialty and salad crops, plus flowers, are grown in Austin.
Peach Creek Farm is a small holding dedicated to producing high quality, healthy vegetable and meat products using sustainable agriculture practices.
Our beef is hormone, pesticide and antibodic free. These cattle spend their entire life on quality forage, in the pasture, no grain, no feedlot - Ever!
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