If you frequent the valley, you should check out the Buy Fresh Buy Local for the Shenandoah Valley website.  You will soon be able to find a directory of local businesses and farms which support and grow local foods.

As part of a larger effort to help local businesses and consumers make decisions about local food, 40,000 copies of the downloadable guide have been printed and distributed.

Through this effort, the group hopes to:

• Strengthen the local food and farm economy in the Shenandoah Valley area,
• Connect institutional food buyers to nearby farms and processors,
• Foster a growing relationship among consumers, grocers, meat processors, restaurant owners, dining service staff, farmers, local government, and economic development officials, and
• Assist local independent food and farm businesses better communicate their positive impacts on the local economy.

[via Hburgnews]

There has been a lot of talk on cVillain related to the local/slow/organic food movement. Gobbler wrote a post on the economics behind sustaining a 100% organic diet, thanks to his wife’s new infatuation with the hit-book “Skinny Bitch”. Vanillavy submitted himself to days upon days of a 100% vegetarian diet and prepared a local vegetarian food guide.

So the Charlottesville City Farmers Market is one way to participate in this scene, but there are many other places to embrace this spirit all over town. Courtesy of the Piedmont Environmental Council’s Buy Fresh Buy Local guide, here is the directory to end all directories for the local food scene:

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