High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

Annita Manning

Localvore Food Sources

Not sure of where 100 miles from where you are located would be?  Check out this customized map based on your zip code.

Try the Eat Well Guide that will point you to farms restaurants, stores, and lodging establishments that focus on local agriculture.

Or, try the Rodale Farm Search Tool.

The info below was developed specifically for the September 2008 Eat Local Challenge.

Wondering where to get hard to find Localvore items for the upcoming Challenge??  Sign up to get an EAT LOCAL Challenge starter kit.  Just $30.  Learn more.

Special Information on the Red Hen Localvore Loaves

Click here for a message from the bakers at Red Hen about local bread for this year's challenge.

September 2008 Food Availability

Is someone missing?  Please don't be upset with us.  Just send us an e-mail and let us know.

• Edgewater Garden
• Elwin Neill Farm
• Franciscan Farms Farmstand
• Gaylord Farmstand
• Hartshorn Farmstand
• Hunger Mountain Coop
• Local Beer
• Mehurons
• Moretown General Store
• Mountain Valley Farm
• Shaws
• Singing Spindle Spinnery
• Sweet Pea
• Turner Farm
• The Village Grocery
• The Waitsfield Wine Shoppe
• The Warren Store

Edgewater Garden

Located in Waterbury.

Vegetables/Fruit: Fresh vegetables in season grown by Uzbekistan refugees.  Call Valerie Zimmerman, marketing director, at 793-2844 to place an order and to pick up in Waterbury.

Elwin Neill Farm

Located on North Road in Waitsfield

Vegetables/Fruit: Sweet corn, tomatoes, summer and winter squash and apples

Milk: Raw milk is available from 4 to 6pm daily.  Please bring a clean container to the milk house.  Look for Allison or Forest who will be in the barn milking - they can help you get the milk.

Franciscan Farms Farmstand

Located at the Church of the Crucified One on Route 100 in Waitsfield

Vegetables: Seasonal Veggies!

Gaylord Farmstand

Vegetables: Lots of Seasonal Veggies!

Meat: Chicken, beef, pork, eggs.

Check out the Gaylord Farm Eat Local Challenge CSA Sampler - a two week CSA to get you through the challenge!

Hartshorn's Farmstand

Fruits:  Apples, melons

Vegetables: Lots of Seasonal Veggies!

Sweets:  Maple Syrup

Hunger Mountain Co-op (Montpelier)

Vegetables: sugar pumpkins, acorn squash, carrots, red and gold beets, turnips, parsnips, garlic, braising greens, sprouts, Flack Family Farm kimchee and sauerkraut

Dairy: Strafford Organic Dairy milk, cream and ice cream (Strafford), Monument Farms Co-op brand milk, half and half, and cream (Weybridge), Liberte yogurt (Quebec), Water Buffalo yogurt (Woodstock), Willow Hill Sheep Yogurt and cheese (Milton), Cobb Hill Cheese (Hartland), Does Leap Farm cheese (East Fairfield), Frog City Cheese (Plymouth), Major Farm cheese (Putney), Orb Weaver Farm cheese (New Haven), Plymouth Cheese Co. cheese (Plymouth)

Meat: Apple Ridge Farm (Shoreham), Back Beyond (Chelsea), Boyden Farm (Cambridge), Cavendish Game Farm (Cavendish), Flint Brook (Roxbury), Garvin Hill Vermont Beefalo (Greensboro), Maple Lane (Cabot), Misty Knoll, North Hollow (Rochester), Stonewood Farm (Orwell), Winding Brook (Morrisville)

Bakery: Trukenbrod (Vershire), Red Hen Baking Company

Fruit: Champlain Valley Orchards cider and apples (West Shoreham), Berry Creek Farms frozen strawberries (Westfield),

Sweets: Gormly's apple cider jelly (North Chittenden), Brookfield Sugarmakers syrup, Kingdom Mtn syrup, Smith Family Farms syrup, State of VT syrup, Beehaven honey

Wine: Flag Hill Cider (Vershire), Grandview Winery (Calais), Shelburne Vineyards Wine, Boyden Vineyards Wine

Other: Rhapsody tempeh

Local Beer for Localvores

Sean Lawson, fellow Localvore, is now selling his beer.  Stay tuned to more info on where you can get Sean's beer.

Mehuron's Market

Fruit: Champlain Orchards apples, Cold Hollow cider, Vermont Village Organic Applesauce

Produce: produce suppliers vary daily but often include Mazza's and Legarre's.

Dairy: Monument Farm milk and cream, Liberte yogurt, Butterworks Farm yogurt and heavy cream, VT Butter and Cheese chevre, butter, creme fraiche and marscapone,a variety of cheeses from: Willow Hill Farm, Shelburne Farms, Blue Ledge Farms, Vermont Farmstead, Blythedale Farm, Lazy Lady Farm, Jasper Farm and Grafton Village Cheese Co.

Eggs: Gwyn's Eggs (Waitsfield)

Meats: Misty Knoll Farm Free Range Chicken & Turkey

Sweets: Vermont Wildflower Honey, Singing Cedars Apiaries honey, Champlain Valley apiaries, A. Long maple syrup

Wines and Spirits: Boyden Valley Wineries red and white wines, Shelburne Vineyards red and white wines, Sunshine Vodka (made in Stowe but source of potatoes is not verified), Vermont Spirits Vodka ("Gold" made from maple sap and "White" from milk sugars)

Moretown General Store

• Eastman Long and Sons Maple Syrup
• Cold Hollow Cider
• Maple Meadow Farm Eggs
• Cabot Cheese

Mountain Valley Farm

Sweets: Honey and Maple Syrup

Dairy: Eggs

Shaw's

Sweets: Green Mountain Honey Farms honey

Dairy: VT Butter and Cheese chevre, Cabot cheddar

Other: Vermont Village Cannery applesauce (in small snack size packs)

Singing Spindle Spinnery

Located on Route 100 just 1000 feet north of Harwood Union High School

Produce: Seasonal vegetables including summer squash, cut flowers and potted herbs.

This is the place for localvores to go in the early spring when you are craving something fresh from the ground - Jerusalem artichokes are their specialty along with rhubarb and freshly dug horseradish.

Sweet Pea Whole Foods Market

From Carin at SwetPea

We are so excited about the challenge and the chance again to be creative with local cuisine.  You can find on our Hot Bar daily vegetarian and vegan specials, soups and baked goods.  Our Salad Bar will be labeled with which items are local.  In our to-go case we will have meals & desserts to go for you and your family.

The store is a localvore paradise.  Everything is labeled with a “Local Product” tag and you will be pleasantly surprised at our great selection and how easy it will be for you to put together a fantastic meal, sure to please.

Vegetables: carrots, potatoes, beets, turnips. Sunflower Sprouts, Snow Pea Sprouts, Alfalfa Sprouts, Rutabagas, Spicy Dilly Beans, Squash, Corn, Greens, Cucumbers, Green Beans, Tomatoes, Tomatillo, Onions, Zucchini, Celery, Broccoli, Peppers, Scallions, Pumpkins, Cabbage, Winter Squash.

Fruit: loose apples from Champlain Orchards- Paula Red and Ginger Gold, Macs & Cider, Plums, Sickel Pears

Dairy: Crowley Cheese (Healdville VT), VT Butter and Cheese chevre, mascarpone, crème fraiche, quark and butter, Neighborly Farms feta, Woodcock Farm sheep’s milk cheese, Grafton Cheese cheddar, Strafford Organic Creamery ice cream (maple is the only truly local flavor) and milk, Butterworks Farm yogurt and heavy cream, Woodstock Water Buffalo yogurt, Oak Knoll Dairy goats' milk, Millborne Farm yogurt drink, Frog City Cheese, mozzarella, Crowley cheeses  Buffilo de Vermont Yogurt, Vermont Soy Milk, Vermont Soy Tofu,  Stafford Milk, Buttermilk, ½ & 1/2 , Heavy Cream, Blythedale Farm Brie & Camembert, Maplebrook Mozzarella & Ricotta, Flax Family Farm Kim-chie Sauerkraut, Deep Roots Organic Spiced Beets, Carrots, Dikon.

Eggs: from Donald Terry and Lichen Rock (organically fed)

Bulk: Butterworks Farm mixed beans and Jacob’s cattle beans, Butterworks Farm "early riser" cornmeal, Gleason Grains stone ground fine whole wheat flour Wheat Berries, Black Beans,

Sweets: maple syrup (bulk bin), Bill's Busy Bees natural comb honey, Green Mountain Honey Farms honey, Dunham Family Maple syrup, Highland Sugarworks syrup, Northwoods Apiaries Organic Raw Honey, Willis Wood's Pure Cider Jelly, Honey Gardens Apiaries Raw Honey, Maple Sugar, Boiled Cider, Cider Jelly,

Wines: Shelburne Vineyards Lakewood White, New World Red, Vidal Blanc Ice Wine, Rhapsody Dessert

Other assorted stuff: Vermont Village Cannery applesauce, Love and Tea "Green Mountain Mint", Sheffield Farm Seitan,  Rhapsody Tempeh, Sunflower Oil

Meats:  Misty Knoll Chicken, Turkey, Sausage, Turkey Cutlets, Ground Turkey, Meadow View Farm Ground Beef & Steaks

The Turner Farm

Located on Route 100 in Waitsfield.

Milk:  Raw organic milk.  Bring your own clean container.  Go during milking from 6am to 7am or 6pm to 7pm.

The Waitsfield Wine Shoppe

Vermont wines from Boyden Valley Winery and Shelburne Vineyards.

The Warren Store

Dairy: in the deli- Blue Ledge Farm La Luna cheese, Taylor Smoked Gouda cheese, VT Gorgonzola cheese, Dancing Cow Farmstead cheese, Blue Ledge Farm Lake's Edge chevre

Wines: Shelburne Vineyards (all wines except the Cabernet-Franc-Merlot blend are from VT grapes), Snow Farm Vineyard (South Hero, VT)

Eggs: from Salisbury, VT

Sweets: Old Mill Apiaries honey comb (Fair Haven VT)