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Farm to Table Dinners, sponsored by Slow Food Indy. Check out our calendar for links to dinners on August 3rd, 19th, and September 14th.For Farms and Farmers' Markets, click here.Eat Wild lists sources for grass-fed food throughout Indiana. Includes farms, grocery stores, and restaurants!| Grocery Stores (with local food sections) Avon
| Restaurants that serve local foods Link to a list of restaurants in Indiana through the Going Local Blog Indy Sustainable Food Alliance has a great list of local restaurants. Cafe Patachou - Besides environmentally-friendly to-go packaging, this popular Indianapolis restaurant offers Indiana bread, bacon, eggs, produce, as well as sustainable and often organic coffee. Elements - A fine dining restaurant in downtown Indianapolis with many food offerings from local farmers. 3 Sisters Cafe - Named after the harmonious trip of maize, beans, and squash. Located at 6350 N. Guilford Ave. in Broad Ripple Village, Indianapolis. 317.257.5556 |
| Resources [Danville] The first meeting of Menu for the Future, a six-session course to explore the connection between food and sustainability with a view to improve personal and ecological well-being, will take place on Sun. Apr. 20 at 7 pm at Unitarian Universalist Church behind Mayberry Café, using Northwest Earth Institute's Voluntary Simplicity and Deep Ecology workbook series (Cost: $20 for workbook). Topics will be: What's Eating America?, From Field to Fork, Farming for the Future, You are What you Eat, Toward a Just Food System, Local Food Communities. For more info and to sign up for the series and the workbook, contact Amy Hayden at 838-8559 or cabintrail@earthlink.net. Local Growers Guild - has just published their 2008 Local Growers Guide for southern and central Indiana. It is available for $2 at Bloomington's Farmers' Market or area retailers or you can download a PDF version from their site. Peace Leaf Tea - fresh whole leaf teas imported from environmentally responsible sources practicing fair wage principles and good 'mother earth' agricultural methods. Indianapolis. Contact peacleaftea@yahoo.com. Ethical Tea Partnership. | Links Host an Earth Dinner and get your friends talking about where food comes from and stories about food from their childhood. Check out the Earth Dinner site for recipes, and theme ideas. Indy Sustainable Food Alliance - Local organization promoting community-driven food solutions. Indiana Going Local Blog - Excellent Indiana resource by Victoria Wesseler. Includes Indiana fruits and vegetables harvest calendar, guides to farmers' markets, CSA's, and restaurants that serve local food, and recipes. Smaller Indiana Local Food Group - A group for discussing local food sources and restaurants and the impact both economically and environmentally of sourcing local and organic food sources. The Hungry Hoosier Blog - Traveling Indiana in search of food, family, and community. Really good information on where to find food, including recipes. Eat Local Challenge Blog - A group blog (national) written by authors interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed. Eat Local America - National Eat Local Challenge blog The 100 mile Diet - Local Eating for Global Change FoodRoutes - Where Does Your Food Come From? Locavores - Celebrate Your Foodshed Why Eat Local - 13 Reasons from the 100 mile diet website Time to Go Local? - Treehugger article on organic versus local food Sustainable Table - Serving up healthy food choices Indiana Farmers' Markets - List of markets available on the ISDA Web site Eat Well Guide - Find local, sustainable, organic food in your zip code. Eat Grub - Site for the book "Grub" by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. Includes recipes and lots of downloadable information. Their chart of seasonal foods can be downloaded at the bottom of this page (See Attachments). Small Planet Institute - Frances Moore Lappe's website. |
Books This book by Scott Hutcheson (The Hungry Hoosier) and Christine Barbour will be available on July 7th!Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally - Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon Slow Food Nation - Carlo Petrini (See Book Review on the Going Local Blog - April 2/08) Grub - Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry Diet for a Small Planet and Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe The 100-Mile Diet Book - Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon | Videos You can watch these online.... Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Next Dilemma (17 minutes) http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/214 -also Pollan's talk at Butler University (50 minutes) http://streaming.butler.edu/LAS/pollan.mp4 Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat? (20 minutes) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/263 |
| Book club Join the The Politics of Food book club 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., third Tuesday of each month First Mennonite Church, 4601 Knollton Road; Indianapolis 46228 Reading list available online More information available at the Indy Sustainable Food Alliance Web site |
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