I’ve improved the search and added some new sellers on Food Near You. Let me cover the new sellers first:
West Michigan Cooperative
West Michigan Cooperative is an “online farmers market” in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their sellers include Crane Dance Farm where you can get beef, chicken, pork, duck, turkey and more; Mud Lake Farm where you can get lettuce and all that stuff; and three newcomers to FNY: H&W Farms, Jennings Bros. Stone Ground Grains and Joint Wells Orchards.
H&W Farms
H&W Farms sells mostly cherries. In addition to regular old cherries, they sell cherry juice and dried cherries. If you go there, I’m sure you will have a cherry good time!
Joint Wells Orchards
Joint Wells Orchards has apples, apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums and a bunch of other stuff!
Jennings Bros. Stone Ground Grains
Despite the flour-ey descriptions of farm life you might hear, these guys are putting their noses to the grindstone to bring you several different types of flour and corn meal. If you’d like to go against the grain and buy your flour direct from the farm instead of at the supermarket, check out Jennings Bros. Stone Ground Grains.
Improved Search
A few days ago I announced that I had improved the FNY search. One of the half-measures of the improved search was that if you wanted to search for “Bob’s Farm,” you could do that, but you couldn’t search for grocers, restaurants or farmers markets by name. Just farms. Now you can search for anything by name. What’s more, if FNY can figure out exactly which place you’re talking about, it just cut to the chase and take you straight there. For example, searching for “jennings” puts you right on the Jennings Bros. page and searching for “fulton” takes you straight to Fulton Street Farmers Market. It’s a miracle of technology!
I’ll be adding more stuff soon, so keep your eyes peeled.