Locavore

Locavore: a person that eats only food that are grown, processed and produced within 100 miles of their own home.

Becoming a Locavore you are supporting sustainable environmental economies. Since most of the food people consume have traveled on average 2,0000 miles to reach you, not only is a quality of your food effected but it also impacts our environment.

By choosing to buy foods that come from your neighborhood you get the freshest, healthiest, and more flavorful products of the season.

For Seattle residents, this means buying produce, meat, diary and other products from Western or Central Washington. That would include the exclusion of tropical fruits. However, thankfully Washington is full of wonderful fruits seasonally such as cherries, figs, melons, kiwis, and all kinds of berries.

Other options, such as vegetables, have a wide variety from beans and broccoli to peppers, asparagus, and squash.

For full list of the foods produced in Western Washington, see King County's harvest schedule, which gives you information on which farms and where you can find your favorite foods locally.

Some restaurants in Seattle that support local communities include;

~Tilth
~Taste which is insed of the Seattle Art Museum
~Earth and Ocean
~Agua Verde
~All of Tom Douglas's restaurants such as, serisous pie, Lola, Etta's, Dahlia's Lounge
~Macrina Bakery

For more restaurants you can visit Local Harvest.

---Nina Miller