Finding local food

SAFE (Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology) is currently producing a guidebook to healthy food in Berkeley for UC students.

In the meantime we refer you to www.ecologycenter.org or www.localharvest.org

√ Eat Well Guide
free, online directory of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggs from farms, stores, restaurants, inns and hotels, and online outlets in the US and Canada.
√ Local Harvest
searchable database of farms, CSA’s, farmers markets, grocery/co-ops by city and/or zip code

Many of you know:

• Berkeley Bowl
• Monteray Market
• Berkely Natural Foods
• Andronicos
• Whole Foods

all carry organic produce.

Better is to buy from the farmers markets:

in Berkeley

• Tuesdays- at Derby/MLK
• Thursdays-At Rose/Shattuck
• Saturdays-at Downtown Berkely bart/MLK

in San Francisco
Sundays- Civic Center Plaza 8-5
Ferry Building 10-2 (seasonal)
Tuesdays- Ferry Building 10-2
Wednesdays- Civic Center Plaza 8-5
Thursdays- Ferry Building 4-8 (seasonal)
Saturday- Alemany Farmer’s Market 100 Alemany Blvd

Find a Farmers market near you!
Bay Area
United States

Many market studies have shown that food is less costly at farmers markets than at supermarkets. This makes perfect sense seeing as how the ‘food-chain’ is significantly shorter. Also fresher and more accountable.

In the City is Rainbow Grocery – a cooperative whole foods and general store. They have everything-looseleaf flower petals, bulk palm fat and vinegars, massive diversity of dried fruits and olives, cheap bulk foods, amazing cheeses, beer, produce, so many kinds of facial products. Truly, this is the blissiest part of globalized organic marketplace-also silly sometimes.

The Who owns what of organic brands in your supermarket—a diagram of the corporate tentacles in the organic movement

Also, www.berkeleyCOG.org is a new berkeley co-op that is currently delivering and organizing its storefront. This might be something to check into

SAVE MONEY ON ORGANIC FOOD – JOIN OR START A BUYING CLUB Organic consumers across North America are saving money by organizing local buying clubs. Buying clubs are groups of people who get together and purchase a wide variety of organic foods, grains, and herbs in bulk from a wholesale distributor. According to Kathy MacDonald, a member of a buying club in Cheyenne, Wyoming, she is able to buy organic foods she normally wouldn’t have access to in her area, while saving an average of 20% on what those same items would cost in stores. Members of buying clubs also say it’s a great way to build community. For more information, and to find a buying club near you, click here

Remember, www.pixiepoppins.org has many many many organizational links for internships and those living outside the Berkeley bubble.