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Feeding your locavore cravings

By Mary MacVean
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Have a hankering to pick your own strawberries? Curious to see how olive oil is made? Want to replace some of that lawn with edible plants?

The ‘Buy Fresh Buy Local Food Guide’ lists -- not exhaustively -- farms, farmers markets, restaurants, food shops and other ways to taste the bounty of northern Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. At right, Bill Coleman at his farm’s stand at a Santa Monica market.(The online version is searchable by ZIP Code.)

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The guide is a project of several farm and environmental organizations, and cheerleads throughout for farmers with such statements as, ‘By supporting local farmers today, you can help ensure that there will be farms in your community tomorrow, and that future generations will have access to nourishing, flavorful and abundant food.’

It also provides short descriptions of the farms it lists, along with contact information. And there are explanations for terms such as organic, fair trade and sustainable.

-- Mary MacVean
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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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