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My seasonal information dream

One of my more ambitious goals with Locavore is to create a repository of seasonal availability information that spans the whole world, all kinds of food, and is maintained by farmers, chefs, and others who know their stuff.  This information could be made available in easy-to-understand ways to anyone interested in learning more about seasonal local food.

I would love for a growing database of this information to be maintained and made available for anyone that wanted to use it.  It’s a small step in getting all of us to seriously consider the bigger impacts of eating locally and from sustainable sources.

If you are someone interested in helping with this dream, and have contacts in other countries that maintain this data and are generous enough to want to collaborate on a large scale with me, please leave a comment or email me at locavore@[this domain].

This entry was posted by Buster on Sunday, June 7th, 2009 at 6:00 pm. It is filed under Locavore. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “My seasonal information dream”

  1. Hey there, it’s been a while since I checked in on what you’re up to, nice work! :)

    A friend of mine who is a professor in Italy and here in the states has a strong interest in the Slow Foods movement. I bet she has a contact or two for you on this. I’ll be in touch with her again more when she comes to the U.S. in a couple of weeks, let me know if there are specific things you want me to ask her.

    Cheers!
    Melissa

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