Nominate Organic Shopper
for the Green America 2009
People’s CHOICE AWARD
As an approved member of Green Amer-
ica, the Organic Shopper Magazine has
passed Green America’s green business
screening and is qualifi ed to be nominated
for their 2009 People’s Choice Award.
The Green America 2009 People’s Choice
Award is a celebration of leaders of the
green economy, and a challenge to
Your Guide to
corporate America |to follow their path.
FRESH Local Food Green companies work to help people,
From the Farmers of the
communities, and the planet! The ten
most-nominated businesses will appear
Southern Appalachians
on the fi nal ballot for the People’s Choice
The 2009 Local Food Guide is now available
Award this September for the fi nal round
throughout Western North Carolina. The guide,
of voting.
published by the nonprofi t organization Appalachian
Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP), is one the
The winner will be announced on
largest and most comprehensive guides of its kind
November 9 at the San Francisco Green
anywhere in the United States. The Local Food
Festival. Help grow the green economy
Guide lists almost 300 farms, as well as farmers
and supporting one of your favorite green
tailgate markets, wineries, grocers, restaurants,
businesses by nominating The Organic
caterers and bakers, farm stores and stands, farms
Shopper Magazine online at:
to visit, B&Bs and farm lodging, apple farms, u-pick
www.organicshoppermag.com or at
farms, CSAs, and distributors. The Local Food Guide
www.greenamerica.org/greenbusiness/
is in its eighth year of publication.
peopleschoice Thank-you!
Over 90,000 copies will be distributed in 2009. Free
copies are available at more than 400 area locations
Plant and grow a
including grocers, bookstores, libraries, welcome
centers, tailgate markets, doctor’s offi ces, and other
green business
newsstands throughout the region. Additionally, a
— from the
searchable guide is online at www.buyappalachian.
bottom, up!
org. Included in the guide are farms and businesses
in the mountain counties within 100 miles of Ashe-
ville. The focus is on Western North Carolina, and
the guide includes some farms and markets in the
neighboring mountain counties of Georgia,
by Scott Cooney,
co-founder of the
Tennessee, South Carolina, and Virginia.
ReDirect Guide SLC
EcopreneursGuide.com
Appalacian Sustainable Agriculture Project
buyappalchian.org
Available everywhere books are sold
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