In a complete break from the usual iPhonegizmo topics, we are letting our readers know about a completely different type of freebie that we can use on our iPhones!
Here’s a site where passion and high tech come together to provide us with a great service.
Their passion? – promoting the production of sustainable food
How do they do this? Well, you can go to their site for details. But one of the ways is by providing us with a way to easily find good eating places. In their own words:
The Eat Well Guide… continues to be one of the only free online directory of farms, stores, restaurants, bed & breakfasts, and other outlets that offer local, fresh and sustainable food in the US and Canada.
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With an iPhone we can now find these places as we need to – when we are out and about. They have provided us with two great tools that we can use wherever we are.
In the following widget, all you need do is enter the zip code of your current location and the guide will list all the places in that location where you can “eat well”
EAT WELL GUIDE:
The widget looks a bit wonky but it works. Just put your zip code in to get results.
And another great tool is this google-maps based search that tells you all the places where you can eat well as you travel.
FIND the best places to eat as we travel:
When we use this tool a map gets generated that shows all the places that use or produce food that are produced according to sustainable methods. This means that they use:
food production methods that are healthy, do not harm the environment, respect workers, are humane to animals, provide fair wages to farmers, and support farming communities.
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That’s a pretty ambitious goal – and yet, there are apparently plenty of places that support sustainable food production. Check out the results for a trip between Vancouver to Seattle, for example.
And the guide also provides details of each place shown on the map.
That ice cream sure sounds good!