The Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada.

Eat Well’s thousands of listings include family farms, restaurants, farmers' markets, grocery stores, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, U-pick orchards and more.  Users can search by location, keyword, category or product to find good food, download customized guides, or plan a trip with the innovative mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere. Eat Well is also home to The Green Fork blog and the free educational booklet Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement.

Together with the enterprising spirits of independent farmers, locally owned businesses and partner organizations, the Eat Well Guide’s collaborative technology harnesses the power of the web to effect social, environmental and economic change, and maps the route to a more sustainable food system.

For more on the criteria to be listed in the Eat Well Guide, view our Standards for Inclusion.

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our values

We believe that ecologically sound, community-based food choices are essential to solving environmental degradation, climate instability, economic inequality and the myriad adverse health effects of industrialized food production. By creating local connections among consumers and producers of fresh, sustainable food, Eat Well seeks to increase access to healthy food, expose unjust and unsustainable food production practices and expand markets for small-scale farmers and other socially responsible food producers.

"In reality, the site is as organic as the food it advocates. It is constantly changing each day, with updates and new entries from the site's readers and partners. It is also growing, with each new farmers market or locally rooted business that is able to connect to people seeking out exactly what they are producing. And, like a healthy garden, it thrives on diversity."

“Finding the Best Local Food Near You Just Got Easier,” AlterNet, November 15, 2008

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our history

The Eat Well Guide was initially created by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) as a directory of sustainably produced animal products.  IATP later joined forces with Sustainable Table on the project. The Eat Well Guide in its current form, which includes all types of food products, launched in 2003, along with The Meatrix, a critically acclaimed Flash animation series about the dangers of factory farming. Eat Well emerged as an independent program in 2007.

Eat Well and its sister programs, Sustainable Table, The Meatrix, Healthy Monday, H20 Conserve, and Network for New Energy Choices (NNEC) promote community-based sustainable practices for the production and consumption of food, water and energy. Working with research, policy, consumer and grassroots communities, the programs raise public awareness and advance policies that support an economically and environmentally viable future.

The Eat Well Guide has been featured in many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Consumer Reports, Real Simple, Health Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle. Visit our Press page to learn more.

If you have questions about the Guide, visit our FAQ page, or email us at info@eatwellguide.org.