Find restaurants that use local, sustainable, organic foods

I am a proponent of Farmer’s Markets and growing your own produce. However, being new to a suburb, I have not yet figured out how to garden our backyard. So, in the meantime, I have been taking advantage of our local Farmer’s Market. When we go out for dinner, I sometimes like knowing that the restaurant we choose might also take advantage of local produce and help our our community. But, where can we find out which restaurants use organic products or local produce? One such website is The Eat Well Guide.

“The Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of over 12,000 farms, grocery stores, restaurants and other outlets that offer local, fresh and sustainable food in the United States and Canada. Visitors simply enter a zip or postal code to search for food that is free of antibiotics and added hormones, and produced by healthy and humane methods that include organic, pasture-raised and heritage.”

What you can do:
1. Put in your zip code to discover farmer’s markets, restaurants, and stores in your area that offer local food.
2. If you are going on vacation or travel a lot, put in the zip code or city/state of the place you will be visiting. You can also download a PDF file of this information once you register to their site.

Being in a suburb of a big city, I was surprised to find few restaurants in the area that use local foods. I am not sure if these restaurants have not registered with the site, or if there really are THAT few restaurants in the area! But as word gets out, hopefully more restaurants that do use local and/organic foods will sign up.

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