Open Food Network connects you with local, sustainable food

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 24, 2014 4:22 PM EDT
Opensource.com; By Eric Bowen
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Open Food Network is a food hub, a connector between small farmers and places to sell their local, sustainable food. Find them on GitHub. Interest in sustainable, local food has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade. Consumers think more and more about what they are eating and they want food that is sustainably produced, healthy, and safe. Local and organic food purchases hardly missed a beat through the recession. Big companies even started putting the word “natural” on their products hoping to ride the trend. Cynical marketing aside, sustainable, local food is important for a variety of reasons. Larger farms’ grain and livestock production has led to the development of a dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Indiana. Processed food with added sugar contributes to record levels of obesity and preventable disease. So-called "super weeds" are springing up, immune to broadly applied Roundup and other herbicides.

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