Deanna Glosser is a locavore and proud of it. Locavores — people who eat locally grown foods when possible — are soldiers in a growing movement to eat foods grown close to home. Through backyard ...

A new word has quietly slipped into the food system to nudge along the buying local movement. Locavores, coined by four San Francisco women in 2005, was the 2007 word of the year for the Oxford ...

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Unlike today’s locavores, however, not only did Parisian truck farmers do their best to produce out of season (they were already producing green asparagus year-round in the 1820s, 7 and a few decades ...

I love locavores. I loved them when they were Neanderthals and nomads and gatherers eating off the land. I loved them when everybody for the last 20,000 years ate food grown within a mile of their hut ...

While there is no definitive consensus on what constitutes locally grown, locavores from San Francisco to South Hampton typically cite the 100-mile rule, thinking that anything transported from ...

We all know we *should* eat local, shop local and spend our money with local purveyors whenever possible. Some people, however, take this civic duty more seriously than others, refusing to sample your ...

Among foodies, there are certain green truths that are self-evident: fruits and vegetables grown within 100 miles of your home means you're eating fresher, better-tasting foods that help to enhance ...

Financial blogger Felix Salmon has an essay in Foreign Policy called “How Locavores Can Stop World Hunger.” Salmon normally focuses on issues involving economic crises, monetary policy, complex ...