Eat Local book coverEat Local: Your Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Local Food!

Eat Local! Consumers nationwide are heading to the farmers’ markets, pick-your-own farms, joining a “CSA” or local buying club… to enjoy locally-grown foods. You’ve heard about local food is good for your health; your community, local farmers and farmland; and that it tastes great and is fun! Here is your easy-to-follow roadmap for improving your menus with local, sustainable food choices!

This book is for you if you:

    • Have heard about local foods, and would like a simple, step-by-step guide to get started!
    • Are interested in improving your health and saving money on food.
    • Consider yourself an experienced “local foodie” and would like to learn more great local food shopping tips as well as help bring more local food choices available to your community and family.

“I just received my order of Eat Local and it is wonderful. It is packed with great, easy to implement information and helps me to eat healthful and delicious foods and follow a sustainable lifestyle.”
–Angie Tagtow, MS, RD, LD, Environmental Nutritionist

Here’s just a few of things you’ll learn about local food:

          • Eat Local: How to find, purchase and preserve local foods: farmers markets, “CSAs,” farm stands, online and newspapers, co-ops, buying clubs, restaurants, U-pick, foraging and even in your local grocery store! Plus, questions to ask the farmer; questions to ask produce managers; tips to purchase the best produce.
          • Why and how to get off the “runaway train” of our modern, unhealthy food system… and switch to local!
          • All the great things you’ll discover when you switch to local: Great taste, health, ecological benefits, cost-saving potential, the exquisite tastes of seasonal foods, and more! (Includes tips to get started eating local foods.)
          • Answers to your concerns and challenges about switching to local foods: Are they safe? Expensive? etc.
          • Save Money with Local Food: 28 pages of practical tips on how to save money with local foods, including a whole chapter on saving money at farmers’ markets!
          • Enjoy! Cooking tips for local food; “slow food;” reasons to cut down on meat that is sold in grocery stores (with alternatives and options).
          • Eat Well:  Eating seasonally, slow food, organic & sustainable choices, and plant-based diet options.
          • Join the Local Food Movement: Invest in our children, join a local food group, school gardens, farm to school programs, helping the hungry, community gardens, and more.
For more details about the Eat Local book, view the Table of Contents here.

Put this handbook in your tote and take it with you as you shop from local farmers and improve your diet with local, sustainable food choices!


Will your summer include shopping at a farmers’ market? Do you want to enjoy food more and feel that what you eat is truly healthy? If so, this “Eat Local” handbook will help you personalize whole food choices and ask questions of the people who grow your food. This guide provides answers for the beginning locally-grown shopper as a well as the more advanced. And it may even inspire you to adopt a more plant-based cuisine. Enjoy!
– Julie Metcalf Cull, R.D., local food activist and author of Food for Life: A Guidebook to Better Eating, Better Living

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