Local Food in Pittsburgh

See also: Local and Slow Food Movements, Farmers' Markets and Vegetarian Choices.

Edible Allegheny This print/online publication premiered in Spring of 2008 and highlights local food and farmers in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. It is part of the Edible Communities network.

The premise of the local food (locavore) movement is that eating supermarket food that is shipped in from 3,000 miles away is wasting energy resources, bankrupting local farmers, enriching large corporations and resulting in food where flavor is being replaced by chemicals and hormones.

Pittsburgh Region

• Allegheny Front: Earth's Bounty: Plow to Platter
  The Allegheny Front is an environmental radio program for the Pittsburgh region. They have a special series called Earth's Bounty about food and the environment.
• Farmers' Market Alliance of Western Pennsylvania
  Resources for the farmer and the consumer
  More Farmers' Markets...
• Grow Pittsburgh
  Grow Pittsburgh was formed by the owner operators of two urban farms in order to give a voice and leadership to urban agriculture.
• Keystone Farmer's Cooperative
  The Farmers of Keystone Farmer's Cooperative (near Uniontown PA) raise cattle fed on grass and locally grown grains and without the use of hormones, anti-biotics or pesticides in the feed.
• Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA)
  • BuyLocalPA.org
    A directory of Pennsylvania family farms, farmers' markets Community Supported Agriculture farms (CSA's), u-pick farms, restaurants, grocers, caterers and bakers, bed & breakfasts, and other businesses that sell locally grown farm products.
  • Southwestern Pennsylvania
    This region encompasses Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
  • Southwestern PA Events
• Pittsburgh Magazine: Where to Buy Local
  The May 2007 feature was "Get Fresh, Buy Local". Here are some farms and stores where you can do just that.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The modern food message is eat local
  In this August 02, 2007, article, Marlene Parrish, after reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, Fast Food Nation, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, challenges herself (and you) to "eat locally grown and locally produced food." She gives you the resources to do so.
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Cravings: Buying local brings just-picked produce to your table
  In this article from June 29, 2006, Amy McConnell Schaarsmith talks about the local food scene in Pittsburgh and the farmers who provide it.
• Slow Food Pittsburgh
  This is the local chapter of the world movement to slow down and eat locally and carefully produced food. Check out the local events.