Below you will find resources on eating local food, sustainable agriculture, and the environment.  To download a pdf handout of these resources, click on this link here for the latest version.

 Links

• Local Harvest:  Features an interactive map: type in your zip code and receive information about purchasing organic and/or locally-produced food.
• Eat Local Challenge:  Contains information about the local eating challenge.
• 100-Mile Diet Website:  Maintained by the authors of One Man, One Woman, this website is full of useful information and tips about eating locally.
• Locavores website
• Community Supported Agriculture 
• Sustainable Table: 
• Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
• Sierra Club True Cost of Food:  Great links to other resources.
• Pick Your Own Daily Update:  List of area farms and crop schedule.
• Environmental Working Group:  Information on food research; guide to vegetables and fruits.
• Center for Science in the Public Interest: Information on food, and on eating green.
• Organic Trade Association:  Links to other information.
• American Institute for Cancer Research:  Great newsletter with plant-based recipes.

Books 

• Michael Jacobson, Ph.D. and Staff of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. 2006.  Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment. www.scpinet.org.  
• Barbara Kingsolver. 2007. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Year of Food Life. NY: Harper Collins.
• Gary Nabham. 2002. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. NY: Norton.
• Marion Nestle. 2006. What to Eat (and also, published in 2003, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health.)
• Dale Pfeiffer. 2006. Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture. British Columbia, CA: New Society Publishers.
• Michael Pollan. 2006. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. NY: Penguin.
• Eric Schlosser. 2005. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal. NY: Harper Perennial.
• Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon. 2007. Plenty: One Man, One Woman and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally. NY: Harmony.

Articles

• Gerri Hirshey, "Local Food 101, With a School as his Lab," The New York Times (May 13, 2007).   Timothy Cipriano, the “Local Food Dude,” is teaching Connecticut students to grow and prepare their meals.
• Catherine Price, "Sorting Through the Claims of the Boastful Egg," The New York Times (September 16, 2008). 
• Upstate Locavore member Jason Schmidt interviewd on finding local meat sources--read the article here!