Local links
Freecycle: Freecycle.org Cedar Rapids Freecycle, Iowa City Freecycle From the freecycle.org website: "It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills."Edible Iowa A quarterly magazine that focuses on the local/artisanal food of central/eastern Iowa
Buy Fresh Buy Local Johnson/Linn County
pdf directory listing restaurants, farmers markets etc
Johnson County Local Food Alliance
Slow Food Iowa City local chapter. They have a nice list of local food producers, but I'm not sure how up to date it is: Local Food producers
www.growinca.org - this is the Iowa Network for Community Agriculture
Blogs
Ali's Grocery, Garden and Dinner BlogAli's Better Choices and Corridorlocavore Blog
Iowa Food Geek: Food! Kids! Food! And....more Food! I grow them both...kids and food.
Iowa Compact
No Impact man A great blog about a man who attempted to have no impact for one year including eating local--he even has a toddler. The archives are totally worth reading. He is writing a book too.
Living Plastic Free
It Blows Here Local food blog
More links
Eat Local ChallengeLocal Harvest
Foodroutes
Farmaid Nice movie clips from Dave Matthews and Neil Young about the importance of getting our food from the family farmer
Eat Well Guide
Eat wild
Slow food USA Slow Food USA "envisions a future food system that is based on the principles of high quality and taste, environmental sustainability, and social justice – in essence, a food system that is good, clean and fair."
Smart Foods Healthy Kids
Sustainable Table
Two Angry Moms Movie and organization dedicated to improving school lunches
Treehugger's Green Guides
Story of Stuff-- 20 minute cartoon about consumption (like buying stuff, not TB). It is kind of long, but totally worth the time!
ReusableBags.com Online retailer of grocery bags and water bottles. Ali highly recommends this place. They have great customer service...I have ordered the acme grocery bags and Klean Kanteens for the whole family. Brad even has one with a sippy top!
