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Eat Local, Win Concert Tickets

Food & Wine (June 10, 2010)

Scoring concert tickets by eating locally almost seems too easy. But the Boston alt-pop band Guster is challenging fans to use the Eat Well Guide to find and eat at least one meal using local, sustainably raised food; upload a photo of the meal as proof; and have a chance to win an ultimate-access pass to Live Nation-sponsored concerts in either the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, or Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.

Eat Local, Like a Rock Star, Guster's Gardner Says
Planet Green (June 8, 2010)

For a nice play on words, Adam Gardner is supporting gardening this week. Sort of. Gardner, frontman for the alt rock band Guster, is challenging fans to eat local food at least once a day for the next seven days. No, not from a local fast food joint. We're talking about locally grown food. The deadline is noon Eastern on Friday, June 18. So get eatin'. You can use the Eat Well Guide to find locally produced and organic food in your community.

Eat Well Guide Helps You Eat Local, like Guster

Treehugger (June 8, 2010)

Guster guitarist-singer Adam Gardner is challenging folks to eat local at least once a day for a week, then snap a picture, upload it, and vie for two Live Nation passes, and a chance to win a Honda Insight Hybrid.What's behind Door No. 2? The Eat Well Guide, which can help you find that local food.

Best Green Blogs of 2010

Viewpoints (June 3, 2010)

The Green Fork is the blog extension of the Eat Well Guide, which lists thousands of resources for green foodies, in addition to downloadable customized guides and trip planning tools with maps.

The Groaning Table: Try a side of politics with your next meal
Sierra Club (March 2009)
"Eat Well Guide maintains a huge online database of where to find sustainable food that is searchable by zip code. The site also has a blog, Green Fork, that offers tips, news, recipes, and commentary."

Blaze a "Sun Food" Trail to the Inauguration
The Huffington Post (January 17, 2009)
"Whether you're heading out from the heartland--or the bi-coastal "arugula belt"--the EWG's interactive mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere, lets you print out your own ready-to-roll, customized "eat-inerary" with directions to the shops, co-ops, restaurants, farmers markets and even B & B's along your route that feature locally grown fruits, veggies, pastured animal products and all the other good stuff you can't find at conventional roadside restaurants."

Take the Local, Organic Thanksgiving Challenge
Planet Green (November 19, 2008)
"Chefs Alice Waters, Dan Barber, and Mario Batali [have] teamed up with Consumers Union and the Eat Well Guide to create the Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge."

Green Your Thanksgiving: Seasonal Ingredients
Sierra Club (November 17, 2008)
"The Thanksgiving meal lends itself nicely to seasonal foods, so opt for sustainable, local and organic ingredients. Find humanely raised turkeys using the Eat Well Guide, or try a heritage bird. Stock up on your root vegetables at local farmers' markets and produce stands."

Finding the Best, Local Food Near You Just Got Easier
AlterNet (November 15, 2008)
"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."

Make One Local Dish This Thanksgiving
The Daily Green (November 14, 2008)
"Consumers Union and Eat Well Guide have teamed up to launch the Thanksgiving Local and Organic Food Challenge. Are you up to the task? The groups have made it easy to either enter your zipcode to find a local ingredient, or you can search the recipe database if you know what you want to work with."

Time to Mothball the Butterball!
The Huffington Post (November 13, 2008)
"And by partnering with The Eat Well Guide, Consumers Union makes it supremely easy for you to participate. There's no need to embark on a marathon foraging expedition to hunt down organic cranberries or locally grown squash, because the Eat Well Guide's comprehensive online tool does the searching for you--you just have to do the gathering!"

A Delicious Revolution
O, The Oprah Magazine (September 2008)
"Whether you are a farmer or a farm-stand shopper, there are hundreds of remarkable organizations and resources to help you make smart, sustainable choices. Here are a few. For the best local sources of grass-fed beef or organic produce, check out LocalHarvest (LocalHarvest.org) and the Eat Well Guide (EatWellGuide.org)."

Eat Well Guide Shares High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement
TreeHugger (August 28, 2008)
"We’re overjoyed to see Eat Well Guide’s growth from a seedling as a search engine for sustainably raised meat to a mature fruit bearing tree eager to share it’s bounty."

The Fast Track To Slow Food
The Huffington Post (August 21, 2008)
"Anyone who travels knows how incredibly hard it can be to find healthy eating options on the road; now, the Eat Well Guide is also launching a new interactive mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere (EWE), to help you locate fresh, local foods wherever you go."

Announcing Eat Well Everyhwere: Hungry For Change
Participant Media Productions (August 21, 2008)
"This downloadable guide has online tools, websites, tips and strategies on how to effectively use the web to support agrarian efforts. One of the chapters is called 'A Flickr of Hope' - brilliant!!"

A Modest Proposal for Sustainable Eating
San Francisco Chronicle (August 17, 2008)
"Here is a list of top resources for finding out more about food issues - and finding food. The Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants, markets and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food throughout the United States and Canada (eatwellguide.org)."

Women's Health 100 Best Websites
Women's Health (July 2008)
22. EAT LOCAL: eatwellguide.com. "Search by zip code to find restaurants and stores—from Whole Foods to little farm stands—that sell locally produced eats."

Learn More About Eating Green
Planet Green (May 6, 2008)
"Good: A locally grown tomato. Better: A locally grown heirloom tomato. Why? Not only are they tastier, they help preserve biodiversity. This little factoid is an example of what you can find on the Green Fork, a new blog aimed at supplying the information you need to eat green."

Eating and Traveling Vegetarian
Wall Street Journal (March 11, 2008)
"Though not strictly for vegetarians, eatwellguide.org lists restaurants, farms and stores offering local, sustainable and organic food nationwide."

4 Best Web Tools to Help you Eat Local
The Daily Green (January 4, 2008)
"If you're not sure if those grapes you're eating have sailed from Chile to California and then trucked their way to your favorite downtown eatery—check out the Eat Well Guide."