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Eat Wild lists sources for grass-fed food throughout Indiana. Includes farms, grocery stores, and restaurants!
Indiana Living Green Magazine promotes eating local! Visit their website and search for "local foods" and you will see all the articles written on this subject. Also visit their CSA Listing and Farmers Market Calendar online.
Grocery Stores (with local food sections)
Avon
- Back in Time Natural Foods. 7900 East US Highway 36, Avon
Bloomington
Fort Wayne
Goshen
Indianapolis
- Indy Food Co-op, OPENING FALL 2009
- Edibles. 5612 East Washington St.; Indianapolis
- Good Earth Natural Food Store. 6350 Guilford Ave, Indianapolis
- Goose, the Market. 25 N. Delaware St. Indianapolis
- Georgetown Market. 4375 Georgetown Rd, Indianapolis
- L.E. Kincaid & Sons. 5605 N. Illinois St, Indianapolis
- Nature's Cupboard Superstore. 793 S. Emerson Ave, Indianapolis
8215 US Hwy 31 South, Indianapolis - Nature's Market, Inc. 2424 Lake Circle Dr, Indianapolis
- Vintage Natural Foods. 7391 N Shadeland Ave, Indianapolis
- Whole Foods, 14598 Clay Terrace Blvd, Carmel, 1300 E 86th St, Indianapolis
| Restaurants that serve local foods
Link to a list of restaurants in Indiana through the Going Local Blog
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
RBistro - 888 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis. Fine dining made from the freshest ingredients by Chef Regina Mahallick.
Farm Bloomington - 108 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington.
Chef Daniel Orr traveled to his home state of Indiana to open this multi-faceted culinary complex, consisting of a restaurant, market, bar, walk-up crepe window and music venue. The focus is on the local and fresh ingredients Orr incorporates into his menu items.
| Books / Videos
 ThisBy book by Scott Hutcheson (The Hungry Hoosier)
and Christine Barbour will be available on July 7th!Barbour.
Coming Home to Eat - Gary Nabhan 
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
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.
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
| Other
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.
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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.
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