Local Foods Glossary
What's the difference between "organic" and "natural"? Find useful, straight-forward definitions to common words and phrases connected to eating and preparing local foods.
Farmstead Cheese
What is a farmstead cheese? Find out here.
What is a farmstead cheese? Find out here.
Definition of Farmers Markets
What are farmers markets? Find out what they can be and what they should be.
What are farmers markets? Find out what they can be and what they should be.
Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)
A system of food sales and distribution that directly connects farms and consumers.
A system of food sales and distribution that directly connects farms and consumers.
Foodshed
A foodshed is everything between where a food is produced and where a food is consumed -- the land it grows on, the routes it travels, the markets it goes through.
A foodshed is everything between where a food is produced and where a food is consumed -- the land it grows on, the routes it travels, the markets it goes through.
Kitchen Mandoline
What is a kitchen mandoline and how do you use it?
What is a kitchen mandoline and how do you use it?
Locavore
Someone who eats exclusively--or at least primarily--from their foodshed.
Someone who eats exclusively--or at least primarily--from their foodshed.
Natural
What does it mean when a food label says "natural"?
What does it mean when a food label says "natural"?
Organic
Find out what "organic" on a food label really means.
Find out what "organic" on a food label really means.