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January 30th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Do you know of a nation-wide user-editable source for information on where our food comes from, where to buy local products, etc.? I’m contemplating building such a thing - a start is at http://foodorigins.wikispaces.com/ - but it needs more features. Ideally, you’d be able to search for food within 100 miles of your location, or search by product, or by store. Before I go to all this trouble…do you know if something like this is already out there? I don’t want to duplicate effort if it already exists.
January 30th, 2007 at 10:43 am
hi Emily: Wow, that’s a great idea, although of course be prepared for it to be plagued with all the usual problems wikipedia has had. I’m sure the trolls of the anti-organic movement will be happy to “edit” the entries on raw milk, etc. As for whether something like it exists, to my knowledge, no. There are massive, fantastic databases of local sustainable foods that you can search through Sustainable Table’s Eatwell Guide (http://www.eatwellguide.org/index.cfm) and also through Local Harvest (http://www.localharvest.org/), but they are not user-editable.
I wonder if something like Yelp! or CitySearch, where registered editors could post reviews/descriptions and then users could comment, might not be a more workable model.
Anyway, I’d love to keep in touch about this and help in any way I can in my minuscule amount of remaining free time. E-mail me, OK?