Books for Localvores

Here are some current books that you might enjoy finding at the library or your local independent bookstore.

NH/VT Localvore Projects

vermontlocalvore.org
Mad River Valley (VT) Localvores with excellent resources: local food sources, books, films, recipes, blog, events, and links.

eatlocalvt.org
Champlain Valley (VT) local food advocates with food source list, rationale, recipes, and links.

postoilsolutions.org
Brattleboro VT group working to create the regional infrastructure necessary for a post-oil society.

acorn.org
ACORN (Addison County Relocalization Network) cooperative response to an energy-constrained future. Local food info on localvores and farmers directory.

rutlandfarmandfood.org
Rutland Area Farm and Food Link (RAFFL), collaborative partnership, connecting local agriculture with consumers and communities in Rutland County.

hannahgrimes.com/localvore/index.html
Keene, NH, support for local food, arts, and business.

seacoasteatlocal.org
Portsmouth, NH, localvores

Other Buy-Local Food Organizations

locavores.com
The original "locavores," culinary adventurers supporting food grown within 100-mile radius of San Francisco with rationale, recipes, food, and cooking links.

100milediet.org
Find your 100-mile radius using your zip code. Lively site.

buylocalfood.com
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) is a group of local foods advocates in western Massachusetts. Their site describes many interesting programs, events, and news. Check out their newsletters. You'll find the current one in the archives.

meepi.org/elfc/
Eat Local Foods Coalition of Maine. Maine local foods news and links.

localfooddude.com
A web site created by Connecticut school chef, Timothy Cipriano, a strong advocate for local foods. Wonderful links!

Collaborating Organizations in NH and VT

vtearthinstitute.org
VEI offers an array of self-guiding community discussion courses: Voluntary Simplicity, Choices for Sustainable Living, Discovering a Sense of Place, Deep Ecology, Globalization and Its Critics, and Healthy Children-Healthy Planet.Suggestions for starting your own localvore group are at this site. See Localvore Pod Map for VT/NH Localvore Projects.

vitalcommunities.org/Agriculture/agriculture.htm
Valley Food & Farm is a program of Vital Communites, based in White River Junction, VT. They publish an annual Locally Grown Guide (for much of VT and NH) and VF&F Tidbits electronic newsletter and created the Dartmouth Local Food initiative.

dacres.org
D Acres of NH is a nonprofit organic farm and educational homestead committed to promoting a more sustainable future through farm-based workshops, internships, and public access. Site has articles, schedule of films, potlucks, and workshops.

nofanh.org
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire (NOFA-NH). Find NH organic farms. Events calendar.

nofavt.org
The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT). Find Vermont organic farms, farmers markets and CSAs. Calendar of events. Useful links.

vermontfresh.net
Vermont Fresh Network: Farm & Chef Partnerships; directory of area restaurants and farm partners who aim to serve local, fresh food.

nhfarmtorestaurant.com
The New Hampshire Farm to Restaurant Connection links New Hampshire farms and food businesses with New Hampshire restaurants.

ruralvermont.org
Activates, advocates and educates for living soils, thriving farms and healthy communities: news, issues, events, resources.

coopfoodstore.com/news/Archives/arch_misc/localvore.html
Info on localvores and a list of all foods carried by the Hanover/Lebanon Co-op which are grown/raised within a 100-mile radius of the co-ops.

localharvest.org
Locate farms,CSAs,food co-ops and restaurants that feature local foods across the U.S.

sustainabletable.org
Features issues (ex. animal welfare, antibiotics, genetic engineering, fossil fuels, health,), sustainable food in schools, recipes, cookbook reviews, feature articles.

Articles

omorganics.org/page.php?pageid=197
"Think Locally and Act Neighborly"; a comprehensive rationale for eating locally-grown foods.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4312591.stm
Features article "Local Food "Greener than Organic"

worldwatch.org./node/3938/
Features what individuals can do,"Tale of Two Tomatoes," links, info on the book "Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket" by Brian Halweil.

vtcommons.org/node/189
Article by Bill McKibben "Can Vermont Feed Itself?". (After reading this excellent article, click on "Journal" in the menu and scroll down to Issue 6 October 2005; the entire issue is dedicated to local foods in VT.)

museletter.com/archive/159.html
"What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out" by Richard Heinberg, FEASTA Conference, Dublin, Ireland, June 2005.

coopfoodstore.com/news/Archives/arch_9_04/editor.html
"Shopping for the Common Wealth" by Rosemary Fifield.

coopfoodstore.com/html/about_producers.html
Photos and descriptions of many VT/NH farmers supplying the Hanover/Lebanon-Co-op. See "Issues" in menu: excellent articles on food ssues.

energybulletin.net/14227.html
"My Saudi Arabian Breakfast"

thenation.com/issue/20060911
"The Nation" dedicates this issue to "Wake Up America! Pay Attention to What You Eat!" with articles by Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, Wendell Berry, Jim Hightower, Marion Nestle, Peter Singer, Frances Moore Lappe, and many others.