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Get Your Local Farm & Food Data: Local Dirt & Locavore Launch Widget & API
Local Dirt and Locavore recently launched a free search widget and API for their farm, farmers market and CSA mapping data. There are over 35,000 United States and Canad-based farms, farmers markets and CSAs in their combined databases, which you are now able to integrate into your own website or mobile app
Why Startups, Data Nerds, & Researchers Should Care About Farmers Market Data
Startups, data enthusiasts, researchers, and policy makers all have a reason to start caring about the USDA’s annual National Farmers Market Directory: more comprehensive data will make it easier to build better applications, make more strategic business decisions, conduct research, and improve policy decisions. Every year the Agricultural Marketing Service at the USDA produces the
iTools: The iPhone Fab Four Free Apps for Urban Ag Enthusiasts and Local Eaters
I’m very excited about this week’s set of iPhone apps. With a tip of the hat to the Fab Five freshmen from the Michigan Wolverines back in the 90′s, I give you: the Fab Four free iPhone Apps for Urban Ag Enthusasts and Local Eaters. The apps reviewed below help you make better decisions about what kinds
Lovefre.sh: Crowdsourcing an Augmented Landscape Of Local Food
“We believe that change is needed in the way we consume and produce food. We don’t pretend to have the answer to what that change should be. It’s complicated. However, we see huge benefit in reducing the carbon footprint of our consumption by sourcing food locally wherever possible. Huge sense in the notion that by
Making FarmVille Real
It’s refreshing to hear Dave Thier talk about the struggles he had as a farmer on FarmVille. I hesitate to say it, but I think his experience – the attraction, the addiction, the desertion, actually bodes well for farms and farmers. Apparently more than 80 million people want to get involved with the farm (albeit
8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities),
Food Sprout: Mapping The Food Supply Chain
Where does your food come from? The answer is more difficult than you might imagine. Thankfully, a growing number of tech savvy entrepreneurs are leveraging their Web2.0 acumen and the open government data movement to address the problem. Food Sprout is a new, data-driven website that is mapping the food supply chain to improve transparency about
2010 Food+Tech Highlights
What a year for food and tech! It has been truly wonderful getting to know all of you over the past couple of months. I can’t wait to connect with more of you at the events (hackathons, classes, and nerdy tech dinners) that are in the works for 2011. Two weeks ago, my friend Charlie
ThisBatch.com: NYC Tech Entrepreneur Chris Muscarella on Building The Lean CSA
This Batch, uses the power of the web and smart supply management to offer local produce that’s more on demand. Consumers win by getting more choice and flexibility of when they participate and farmers win by having pre-bought produce that they can transport easily along with their other orders, rather than having to speculate on how much to bring to a farmers market
Food Farm Connect: Building An Urban Agriculture Database
City dwellers around the country are finding creative ways to use their fire escapes, windows, backyards, and abandoned lots to grow food in the city. As the movement matures, decentralized networks and entrepreneurial ventures related to the production, processing, and distribution of food grown in the city have begun to sprout. These entrepreneurial ventures are
Hacking For Social Good — Using Open Data to Make Sense of our Food System
It was 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning in Soho, the streets lay quiet and Broadway was not yet filled with shopping tourists. Though one floor above, at co-working space Soho Haven, there was a bustle of energy as developers, designers, statisticians, urban farmers, public officials, and researchers from across the city gathered for the
Open Data + Food Ontology+ Semantic Web Primer
Thank you so much to everyone who came out yesterday for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon! I will be covering all of the interesting people, projects, and outcomes from the event over the next week, but wanted to get you started with this awesome video. We were extremely lucky to have Dominic DiFranzo join us for
Real-Time Farming With Gastronomic Guru Lindsay-Jean Hard
Real Time Farms is a web platform that uses crowdsourcing to help you understand where your food comes from. Local Food enthusiasts contribute geo-tagged photographs, tips, and edit information about what’s available at local markets and farmers. Kind of like the Wikipedia of farms, anyone can add or share information. The site also offers subscription-based
Food+Tech Bites 11/22 -11/28
Are you still not receiving food+tech bites in your inbox? Sign up here to ensure you get deliciously interesting food+tech news, tips, and the latest apps delivered right to your inbox! Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SAVE THE DATE: FOOD+TECH HACKATHON 12/4-12/5 Details coming this week. Please contact me at danielle
Feed on Data: Eating In Trumps Eating Out
In an article last week, I discussed data that shows that a farmer receives a dwindling portion of the consumer food dollar in the US. The data does not explain the ratio of whole foods to processed or prepared foods purchased, but one person who commented on that post attempted to reason, “The farmers’ share
