About This Site

The site is focused on finding and eating locally grown/produced food in Philadelphia, its surrounding suburbs, and South Jersey. Whether you consider yourself a locavore, an adherent to the 100 Mile Diet, a Slow Food-er, or something else, we can all agree that eating local is not only good for you, it's good for everyone!

Ten Reasons to Eat Local [click the link for more info]

1. Eating local means more for the local economy.
2. Locally grown produce is fresher.
3. Local food just plain tastes better.
4. Locally grown fruits and vegetables have longer to ripen.
5. Eating local is better for air quality and pollution than eating organic.
6. Buying local food keeps us in touch with the seasons.
7. Buying locally grown food is fodder for a wonderful story.
8. Eating local protects us from bio-terrorism.
9. Local food translates to more variety.
10. Supporting local providers supports responsible land development.

We're not barefoot hippies with patchouli stank running around trying to save the world. We're students, homemakers, and professionals just trying to do what's best for us and what's best for our community - which is to eat local as often as possible!.

The writers

Never having owned a car, Allison has been dealing in local food for a long time. Happily, these days more "local" food is, actually, local. A big foodie, container gardener, and knitter (there's a local movement there, too), Allison lives in South Philly.

Erin lives in West Philadelphia, where she writes thinks about sustainable urban gardens, local food, city chickens and ninja-style abandoned land reclamation. She writes the vegetarian food blog Veggicurious, and can be found, when not coordinating programs at the Kelly Writers House, cooking in the her kitchen (or someone else’s), making trips to local farmers markets and the Mariposa Co-Op, riding her bicycle, and trying to get more people to compost.

Erica is a community garden organizer and activist living in West Philly. She gardens at the St. Bernard Community Garden and The Woodlands Community Garden (which she started with her friends and neighbors in the summer of 2009). She is passionate about local food and community gardening, and she loves to bake and preserve food. Erica currently works at the Camden Children's Garden in Camden, NJ as the Community Garden Organizer where she helps community members build their own gardens and teaches about healthy eating and nutrition. She is also starting an urban agriculture cooperative in the Walnut Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia which will provide part-time urban agriculture jobs and contribute to the local food economy.

Nicole [email], 35, lives with her husband, three cats, and one dog in Delaware County. Nicole keeps a vegetable garden and loves to cook, read, and knit. She swears she's learning a bevy of skills [like cheesemaking and spinning yarn] so she can drop off the grid and live like a hermit or survive in case of the shit hitting the fan politically, but she really just likes to learn new things. Nicole also likes to go skydiving now and then, and is a member of a local dragonboat team. She volunteers at the Fair Food Farmstand and Planned Parenthood.

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