Find Good Food

Congratulations! If you’re here on HOMEGROWN, you already care about good food. Maybe you raise rabbits or chickens; maybe you coax carrots or zucchini from the soil. Celebrating your edible endeavors is food for our HOMEGROWN soul!

Chances are, though, if you’re an amateur gardener or even a small homesteader, you’re not growing the bulk of what you eat. That’s where farmers come in. In the spirit of HOMEGROWN’s big sibling, Farm Aid, we’ve assembled this vetted list of food-finding resources to help connect the dots between farmers and eaters and to get good food into everybody’s hands—not to mention pantries and stomachs. Because before you can make butternut squash and dumplings or quick and garlicky refrigerator pickles or no-cook tomato sauce, you need butternut squash and cucumbers and tomatoes.

Just for the record, we haven't accepted any bribes—edible, monetary, or otherwise—for inclusion; i.e., these listings are not paid advertisements. While HOMEGROWN vets all recommendations for list-worthiness and maintains final editorial discretion, we're hoping you'll help refine and grow the roll call. Got a website you think we should add? Post a comment below or send us an email. When it comes to good food, we’ve got an insatiable appetite. 

NATIONAL RESOURCES FOR
GOOD FOOD OF ALL KINDS

» Local Harvest

Search this interactive map for farms, farmers markets, CSAs, restaurants, groceries and co-ops, wholesale providers, meat processors, and more. If you can’t find what you’re looking for in your neck of the woods, browse the online catalog.

» Eat Well Guide

This free directory lists family farms, restaurants, markets, and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food throughout the United States and Canada. Search by keyword or zip code and get returns by category: from butchers to bakers to educational centers.

» Farm Aid’s Interactive Map of Winter Farmers Markets

Some are outdoors, some are indoors, all provide locally grown food in
winter. Hallelujah!

» USDA Farmers Markets Search

Search for farmers markets by location, products available, and payment accepted—including WIC and SNAP.

» USDA’s Know Your Farmer Know Your Food Compass

Search this interactive map by location (state, counties, tribal areas), by interest (agricultural careers, college programs, meat processors), and beyond.

» Real Time Farms

This crowd-sourced directory plots farms, food artisans, farmers markets, and restaurants on an interactive map that is filterable by ingredient (kale, beef), certification (Certified Organic, Certified Naturally Grown), and growing practice (organic, GMO-free, grass fed, etc.). See something missing? Add it yourself!

» Organic Consumers Association Buying Guide

While this directory doesn’t include farms or farmers, it does list other food-related businesses (CSAs, co-ops, non-GMO seed companies), among other categories (health, baby, pets), and is searchable by location, product, and keyword.

NATIONAL RESOURCES FOR
FISH, MEAT, AND DAIRY

» Local Catch

Search this interactive map for your nearest Community Supported Fishery, or CSF.

» Home Grown Cow

No relation, despite the name, but we like ’em anyway. Search by
meat type (beef, pork, buffalo, etc.), by category (bulk, cuts, wholesale), by practice and treatment (no antibiotics added, pasture raised, halal), and by farm size (small, medium, co-op) for happy protein near you.

» Eatwild

There are two ways to search this state-by-state map and database of grass-fed meat producers: by farm and by everything else (stores, markets, restaurants).

» Animal Welfare Approved Product Search

This directory of AWA-certified meat and dairy producers is searchable by location, category (farmers, farmers markets, restaurants, stores), and product (beef, bison, turkey, et cetera). You can read more about AWA certification in HOMEGROWN's Food Labeling 101.

» Real Milk Finder

From the Weston A. Price Foundation, this directory lists sources for raw milk by state.

MORE RESOURCES RECOMMENDED
BY HOMEGROWN MEMBERS

» Karin likes eatlocalgrown.com.

» Lucy likes organicfarmfood.org, farmmatch.com, and farmermaps.com.

LEARN MORE ABOUT GOOD FOOD

» HOMEGROWN 101 Library

Hungry for more? Below is a sampling of topics you'll find in the ever-growing HOMEGROWN 101 archive, from big-picture subjects:

• Food Labeling 101
• Agritourism 101
• Community Building 101
• Farm Internships and Sustainable Food Jobs
• Starting a Food Co-op 101

to smaller scale how-tos for your kitchen, garden, and workshop:

• Selecting Seeds 101
• Homemade Extracts 101
• Rendering Lard 101
• Elderberry Syrup Flu Fighter 101
• Edible Gardens for Kids 101

PUT GOOD FOOD TO USE

So, you’ve rounded up butternut squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes—not to mention kohlrabi, bok choy, poblano peppers, grass-fed beef, honey, eggs, and blueberries? Time to get cooking.

» Recipe Sharing Group

Join and swap family favorites with fellow good-food lovers.

» CSA Cookoff

Browse recipes made with common farm share ingredients.

» HOME Cooked

Find cold-weather recipes (think root veggies and baked goods) in this winter counterpart to the CSA Cookoff.

» The Stew

Share your own triumphs and experiments in HOMEGROWN's member blog and help keep the communal pantry full.

PHOTOS: (CARROTS) MARTHA MARSHALL; (BASIL) MEAGHAN CARPENTER; (PUMPKINS) JEAN MARKKO TIKUSIS; (APPLES) LESLIE J. PRICE; (MICROGREENS) CHRISTY SNYDER; (CHICKENS) DAVID BARROW/FARM-CITY, STATE; (PORK BUTT) JENNIFER; (FIDDLEHEADS) JANIS AHERN; (GOAT CHEESE WITH BLUEBERRIES) DYAN REDICK; (POTATOES) CLARE; (RASPBERRIES) ROB BYRNE; (EGGS) ALLEN FROST