The San Antonio Foodshed

The picture on the left shows a 40 mile radius around San Antonio, which includes enough rural area to provide you with fresh local produce all year. Our goal is to keep the community informed about opportunities to eat locally-grown foods in the San Antonio area. On our main website, we are compiling a list of local growers who welcome people to their farms or to their market stalls. In this context, "local" means within 70 miles of San Antonio (I wanted Fredericksburg to be on the list), but we do include vendors who bring their produce to local Farmers Markets. Our list of growers, towns, and markets is by no means complete and may never be. In fact, we hope our list will never be complete but will instead continue to grow.

Locally-grown foods taste better and are healtier because they don't have to be harvested before being ready in order to travel an average of over 1,000 miles to reach you. Even if you're at a farmers market there's no guarantee that the produce was grown locally, so we strongly recommend that you ask questions. Start the conversation with the grower and find out more about the food you're eating, where and how it was grown, and when. Freshness tends to go hand in hand with other qualities.

Don't hesitate to send in your comments or recommendations of local growers.