My iPhone app, Locavore, has been updated to make eating local foods a whole lot more social!

Locavore 1.0, when it first launched less than 100 days ago, was an iPhone app that told you what’s in season, what’s coming into season soon, and where nearby farmers markets are located. It has been the #1 Lifestyle app in the iTunes store a couple times, reaching as high as #64 in the Paid Apps list, and has already sold more than 10,000 copies.

Locavore 2.0, released today, does all of that and now also lets you be social about it. Connect to people near you with a new feature called “I Ate Local.” Let people within 150 miles of you know what you’re actually finding at the market. Powered by Facebook Connect, you can also post your local food finds onto Facebook.

New Locavore 2.0 features include:

1. Connect to Facebook and post your local food finds to your wall.
2. A new tab! “I Ate Local” shows you what people are eating within 150 or 500 miles. You can also browse the whole world’s local diet.
3. Top feature request! Manually enter zip codes. If you don’t have GPS, it’s being wonky for you, or you want to have a sneak peek into another part of the world, you can now enter your zip code manually.
4. Bigger pictures for all 234 kinds of food!
5. Now, on every food detail page, it will not only tell you what other states it’s in season in, but also highlight how long until it’s in season near you.
6. Local farms are included within the farmers’ markets listings, and you can paginate through multiple pages of all the farms and farmers’ markets within 100 miles of you.
7. Improved data for a couple states.
8. More responsive pages, more consistent look and feel, more stable and fewer crashes!

There’s also a Facebook App! There’s a new Facebook App for the iPhone-less and people who want to check out availability data from their computer. Check it out.

More information for those who want it:

• Video screencast tour of the new features
• Screenshots and more info about the app
• iTunes store link
• Browse or submit feedback, ideas, and bugs here

Let me know if there’s anything else I can answer for you about this. I’m 100% open with all data, usage, etc.

To follow continued progress on this app, I have a Twitter account (@enjoy_locavore) and a Facebook Page.

I’m REALLY excited about this update, and hope you all like it too.  I’ll be posting more info about individual features throughout the week.

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