Before today, the Food Near You search worked like this: you could enter your address or ZIP code and it would find local food sellers for you. It was okay, but if you wanted to find Bob’s Farm or find places close to you that sold eggs, you were out of luck. But now you can search in exciting new ways!
If you’re unfamiliar with Food Near You, you might want to read this.
Let’s say you’d like to find places that sell eggs near 49505. You can do this:
Since FNY is only keeping track of what produce is offered by farms and farmers markets right now (not restaurants or grocers yet), those are the only types of results you’ll see when you search this way.
And you can go ahead and get crazy with the ingredients. You can list as many as you want:
And if it’s more important to you to find everything in one place than it is to find the closest possible places, you can leave out the location and search for products only:
Want to find a farm by name? You can do that. (Right now, this only works with farms. Eventually you’ll be able to do this with any kind of seller.)
And of course, you can still search by just location and see everything near you.
Visit Food Near You to see the search in action!
What do you think of the new search? What else would you like to see from Food Near You? I would really appreciate any feedback. If you’d like to tell me what you think, you can leave a comment here or use the Food Near You contact form.
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