Farms in Los Angeles and Southern California
- Local Harvest. "LocalHarvest
maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory
of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Our search
engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of
sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact
with small farms in their local area. Our online store helps small farms
develop markets for some of their products beyond their local area......The richness, variety, and flavor of our communities, food systems, and
diets is in jeopardy. The quest for economic efficiency has brought us low
prices and convenience through large supermarkets chains, agribusiness and
factory farms, while taking away many other aspects of our food lives,
like our personal relation with our food and with the people who produce
it. More and more people are realizing this and actively working to turn
the tide and to preserve a food industry based on family-owned, small
scale businesses. They are our best guarantee against a world of styrofoam-like
long-shelf-life tomatoes and diets dictated from corporate boardrooms.
The Buy Local movement is quickly taking us beyond the promise of
environmental responsibility that the organic movement delivered, and
awakening the US to the importance of community, variety, humane treatment
of farm animals, and social and environmental responsibility in regards to
our food economy."
