LOCAL FOODS:

Want to interact directly with local food producers and local citizens who want to know more about where their food comes from?  Consider joining the yahoo group Eat Local SW Michigan

Local Harvest is a local and organic food search website.  Simply put in your location, such as Battle Creek, Michigan, and Local Harvest will give you whatever they have listed in the way of farms, grocers, farmers' markets, CSAs, and other resources. Fairly extensive database that supports small-scale growers and sellers.

Local Battle Creek Area Producers:

Eggs and Meat: 

•               Two Thumbs Ranch in Bellevue

•               Patch and Pasture in Battle Creek, Pennfield. Also, Strawberries and Raspberries. Contact Shirley at 269-964-3942. 20975 Pine Lake Rd. Organic practices.

Stone Ground Grains: 

•               Jennings Brothers in Nashville

Flowers, and Pumpkins: 

•               Gale Acres Farm in Galesburg. Also, meat.

Produce: 

•               Avalon Farms in Climax. Avalon also has a CSA serving the Greater BC area.

Soaps: 

•               Frontier Family Farms. Handcrafted Natural Soap from Marshall.

Paw Paw trees: 

•               Tollgate Gardens & Nursery in Bellevue. Larry Sibley is a local professional paw paw breeder. Paw Paws are naturally disease and pest resistant...we should be eating more of them! 

Local Sellers of Produce:

•               People's Food Co-Op in Kalamazoo , off of Burdick

•               Sawall's Natural Foods in Kalamazoo, off of Oakland Drive 

Natural Food Store less than 1,000 feet from Green Gardens:

•               Something Better Natural Foods

Local Restaurants Showcasing Local Food from Green Gardens:

•               Champs Bar and Grill at 869 W. Columbia in Battle Creek

•               Rustica on the Mall in Kalamazoo

•               Zazios at the Radisson in Kalamazoo

•               A Food Affair in Downtown Augusta